Colin James Farrell (born 31 May 1976)[1] is an Irish actor. Farrell appeared in the BBC drama Ballykissangel in 1998, made his film debut in the Tim Roth-directed drama The War Zone in 1999,[2] and was discovered by Hollywood when Joel Schumacher cast him in the lead role in the war drama Tigerland in 2000. He then starred in Schumacher's psychological thriller Phone Booth (2002) where he plays a hostage in a New York city phone booth, and the American thrillers S.W.A.T. (2003) and The Recruit (2003), establishing his international box-office appeal. During that time, he also appeared in Steven Spielberg's science fiction thriller Minority Report (2002) and as the villain Bullseye in the superhero film Daredevil (2003).

Farrell was inspired to try acting when Henry Thomas' performance in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial moved him to tears.[8] With his brother's encouragement, he attended the Gaiety School of Acting, dropping out when he was cast as Danny Byrne on Ballykissangel, a BBC drama about a young English priest who becomes part of an Irish rural community.[9] As an 18-year-old travelling in Sydney, he was at one time suspected for attempted murder.[10] The police sketch looked remarkably like him and he had even described blacking out during the night in question. His only alibi was apparently a journal kept by his friend that explained the two had been across town that night, taking MDMA.[11]

Farrell had roles in television shows and films, including Ballykissangel and Falling for a Dancer in 1998 and 1999.[2][12] He made his feature film debut in English actor Tim Roth's directorial debut The War Zone,[2] a drama about an incident of child abuse, starring Ray Winstone and Tilda Swinton as parents of a girl Farrell's character (Nick) dates.[13] Farrell also appeared in Ordinary Decent Criminal with Kevin Spacey and Linda Fiorentino, a film loosely based on the life of Martin Cahill.[2] In 2000, Farrell was cast in the lead role of Private Roland Bozz in Tigerland, an under-released film[14] directed by American Joel Schumacher.[2] He reportedly got the part on the basis of his charm.[12] Emanuel Levy of Variety said that Farrell "shines as the subversive yet basically decent lad whose cynicism may be the only sane reaction to a situation".[15] Michael Holden of The Guardian wrote that Farrell was "too much the hero" to fit the classic rebel archetype properly, but he did not mind.[16]Tigerland earned $139,500.[12]

Farrell's next American films, American Outlaws (2001) and Hart's War (2002), were not commercially successful.[17][18] His 2002–2003 films, including Phone Booth, The Recruit and S.W.A.T. (all thrillers, with the former two his first starring roles),[19] were well received by critics and successful at the box office.[19] Of Phone Booth, Ebert wrote that it is "Farrell's to win or lose, since he's onscreen most of the time, and he shows energy and intensity".[20] Philip French of The Observer praised Farrell's performance.[21] In S.W.A.T., the actor starred in an ensemble cast including Samuel L. Jackson, Michelle Rodriguez, Olivier Martinez and Jeremy Renner; Renner became a friend. Alan Morrison of Empire wrote, "Farrell can usually be relied upon to bring a spark to the bonfire. That's also true of [this movie]."[22]Elvis Mitchell of the New York Times criticised Farrell's accent, writing that he "employ[ed] a wobbly American accent that makes him sound like an international criminal a step ahead of the authorities".[23]Ebert and the New York Times's A.O. Scott disagreed on the actor's effectiveness in The Recruit; Ebert noted the actor's likability,[24] but Scott felt that Farrell "spends his time in a caffeinated frenzy, trying to maintain his leading-man sang-froid while registering panic, stress and confusion".[25]Phone Booth earned $46.6 million,[26]S.W.A.T. $116.9 million[27] and The Recruit $52.8 million[28] at the box office.

Farrell's supporting roles include an ambitious Justice Department agent opposite Tom Cruise, a potential criminal in Minority Report (2002),[29] and the villain Bullseye in Daredevil (2003). Matt Damon was originally offered the Minority Report role, turning it down to appear in Ocean's Eleven.[30] Farrell said "he had no problem" being the producer's fallback after Damon declined.[31] Bullseye is an assassin, proud of his accuracy. Farrell was signed to the role in December 2001, although he was considered for the lead role of Matt Murdock (Daredevil) until Ben Affleck signed.[19][32] Farrell was encouraged to keep his Irish accent, since this version of Bullseye is from Ireland.[33] He read Frank Miller's Daredevil comics to understand Bullseye "because the expression on the character's faces in the comic books, and just the way they move sometimes, and the exaggerations of the character I'm playing...he's so over-the-top that you do draw from that. But it's not exactly a character you can do method acting for...you know, running around New York killing people with paper clips".[34] That year, he was voted sixth World's "Sexiest Man" by Company magazine.[35]

In late 2003 Farrell starred as a criminal who plots a bank robbery with Cillian Murphy in the dark comedy Intermission, which held the record for highest-grossing Irish independent film in Irish box-office history for three years[36] and remains a cult classic there. In 2004, he appeared in several other independent films receiving limited theatrical release in most countries, including A Home at the End of the World (adapted from Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World).[19] Roger Ebert praised Farrell, saying that he was "astonishing in the movie, not least because the character is such a departure from everything he has done before".[37][38]Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle differed, saying that the actor "is keen on making good....The effort is there, but it's a performance you end up rooting for rather than enjoying, because there's no way to just relax and watch".[39][40]

Farrell played the title role of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's 2004 biographical film Alexander, which, while receiving some favourable reviews internationally, was poorly received in the United States.[41] Its portrayal of the conqueror as bisexual was controversial; the film was criticised by some historians for its treatment of the ancient Persians,[42] although others praised it for its accuracy.[43][44] An ancient-history scholar at the University of Nebraska wrote:

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I would compare [Alexander] to Lawrence of Arabia, in terms of sheer scope, pacing, and its unrelenting focus on a single individual.... In many ways, this is a movie for Greek and Alexander 'geeks.' The more one knows, the more one will recognise—the historical accuracy of sets is better than I've seen in some documentaries.[43]

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The film grossed $167 million worldwide, just exceeding its budget of $155 million.[45]

Farrell's next film was 2005's Academy Award-nominated The New World, his second historical epic.[46] He played the lead role of Captain John Smith, the founder of 17th-century colonial Jamestown, Virginia who falls in love with the Native American princess Pocahontas (Q'Orianka Kilcher). Director Terrence Malick went out of his way to keep Farrell and Kilcher apart until they were filmed together.[47] Although it was released in only 811 theatres worldwide and had a relatively low box-office gross,[48][49] the film received a large number of positive reviews.[50][51] In one of four reviews in The Guardian,[52] John Patterson described it as a "bottomless movie, almost unspeakably beautiful and formally harmonious".[53]The New World was followed by Ask the Dust, a period romance set in Los Angeles based on a John Fante novel[54] and co-starring Salma Hayek. Reviews were mixed; Manohla Dargis of The New York Times favourably described Farrell's work,[55] but Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian found "something a little forced in both lead performances".[56] With a limited theatrical release, it was not a financial success.[57]

The actor was more successful in 2006 with his role opposite Jamie Foxx in Michael Mann's action crime drama, Miami Vice. The film grossed $164 million worldwide[58] on a budget of $135 million,[59] and TimeOut New York ranked it among the top 50 movies of the decade.[60] (The DVD, released the same year, also managed to sell over a million copies (equivalent to $7.91 million in pirated versions) in its first week alone.,[61] and, as of 11 February 2007, had grossed over $36.45 million in rentals.[62] A. O. Scott criticised Farrell's work: "When he's not on screen, you don't miss him, and when he is, you find yourself, before long, looking at someone or something else."[63] Conversely, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone was enthusiastic.[59] The actor also reportedly took a slight pay cut to make friend and recent Oscar winner Jamie Foxx happy: His salary was initially larger than Foxx's.[64]

Farrell next appeared in Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream, which premiered in 2007 and was distributed in the US in early 2008. Reviews were mixed,[65] with Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide writing that Allen's work was "shallow and unconvincing from beginning to end"[66] and Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle saying that although "it's not as good as Match Point or Crimes and Misdemeanors...taken on its own, it's a fairly impressive piece, a directorially vigorous, well-acted, tightly constructed movie". LaSalle praised Farrell: "Allen is notorious for not giving his actors explicit instructions, and yet somehow this worked wonders for Farrell, who has never seemed so naked, so clear and so unencumbered as he does here."[67] Manohla Dargis concurred in the New York Times, adding that she thought Farrell was well-matched with co-star Ewan McGregor.[68]

Farrell's next film, Martin McDonagh's first full-length feature In Bruges, opened the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. While the New Yorker and TimeOut London's film critics found co-star Brendan Gleeson's performance the stronger of the two,[69][70] Bradshaw of The Guardian found Farrell (as hitman Ray) "absolutely superb: moody and funny, lethally sexy, sometimes heartbreakingly sad and vulnerable like a little boy".[71]Time called the film "the prettiest bloodbath of 2008",[72] and Farrell received his first Golden Globe.

Shortly thereafter he appeared in Kicking It, a documentary following six homeless men from Kenya, Russia, Afghanistan, Ireland, Spain and the US as they attempt to qualify for the Homeless World Cup. Farrell appeared on screen and provided the narration,[73] donating his earnings to a homeless shelter in Ireland.[74] The film was released simultaneously in theatres and on television, airing on ESPN2 in a very short window before its DVD release. Farrell received positive reviews for his involvement in the true story.

Later in 2008 Farrell was brother-in-law to Edward Norton's character in Pride and Glory, a police drama directed by American Gavin O'Connor. Roger Ebert disliked the film[75] and A. O. Scott said that the actor "once again indulges his blustery mixture of menace and charm, overdoing both,"[76] but Gregory Kirschling of Entertainment Weekly liked Farrell's work.[77]

Farrell also starred that year in Triage, directed by Oscar-winning Bosnian screenwriter and director Danis Tanović, about the life of a war correspondent. He lost 30 pounds for the role.[80] The actor's work was described as "dedicated" by Variety's Todd McCarthy,[80] and Julian Sancton of Vanity Fair wrote that the film was "a hell of a lot more insightful than other movies that deal with a similar topic".[81] However, Triage was not widely distributed due to the marketing challenges posed by its difficult topics (including PTSD).[80] That year, Farrell played a supporting role (as Tommy Sweet) in Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges.

Another 2009 release was Ondine, a fantasy-drama directed by Neil Jordan starring Farrell as a fisherman with a handicapped daughter. Shot in the village of Castletownbere on Ireland's southwest coast, it featured cinematography by longtime Wong Kar-wai collaborator Christopher Doyle.[82] Mary Pols of Time magazine called the role "tailor-made for Farrell", saying that the actor gave a "beautifully confident performance".[72] Todd McCarthy of Variety singled Farrell out, noting that he worked well as an ensemble actor "graciously allowing [child star Alison Barry] to steal every scene she's in".[82]

The next year, Farrell starred with Keira Knightley in the crimeromanceLondon Boulevard. The film, American William Monahan's debut as director after writing screenplays for The Departed and Body of Lies, was panned by critics.[83] Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian wrote that the film "uses up all its energy, wit and ideas in the first 20 or so minutes, before collapsing into a flurry of boring violence".[84] Leslie Felperin of Variety described it as "like a fancy, retro-styled pocket watch that someone accidentally broke and tried to reassemble with only a vague idea of clockwork".[85] Felperin thought the stars' work was frail, with Farrell "mostly taciturn and vacuous."[85]

The actor starred in the 2011 comedy Horrible Bosses, directed by Seth Gordon, with Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis. The film focuses on a trio of employees who plot to murder their tyrannical superiors.[86] The London Observer's Mark Kermode wrote that although the film would have benefited from a tighter script, Farrell and Jamie Foxx had juicy roles which they "riff with panache".[87] Michael Phillips of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Farrell brought "massive, slobby relish" to his role as Sudeikis's cocaine-fiend boss.[88]

Later that year, Farrell played the main antagonist in the Fright Night remake,[89] joining Anton Yelchin, David Tennant and Toni Collette in the story of a charismatic vampire who moves next door to a high-school student and his single mother. The film was released by DreamWorks, with Craig Gillespie (of Lars and the Real Girl) directing a script by Buffy the Vampire Slayer writer Marti Noxon. Sukhdev Sandhu of the Telegraph wrote that Farrell "proves his comedy credentials once more....utterly seductive as the plushly eyebrowed carpenter-cum-bloodsucker",[90] while the New York Times's A.O. Scott thought that Farrell played his role with "a wink and a snarl and a feline purr".[91] Logan Hill of New York magazine, on the other hand, was confused by the actor's performance: "Sure, [it] may not make much sense, but neither do centuries-old vampires living in Nevadan subdivisions. So he goes for it."[92]

Farrell starred with Kate Beckinsale in Columbia Pictures' Total Recall, a 2012 remake of the 1990 film with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Filmed from May to September 2011 in Toronto and directed by Len Wiseman, the film was a new sci-fi take about a sleeper agent.[93] Costar Jessica Biel appreciated Farrell's skills, calling the actor "surprising and exciting. He just has the ability to be trying different things all the time."[94] Roger Ebert and the New York Times said that although they believed Farrell the better actor, Schwarzenegger in the original was "more of a movie presence and better suited for the role".[95][96]

March 2013 saw the release of Dead Man Down, a thriller directed by Niels Arden Oplev reuniting Farrell with Terrence Howard for the first time since Hart's War ten years earlier. Noomi Rapace, star of Oplev's The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, starred as a facially scarred woman who blackmails Farrell's character into killing the man who disfigured her in a car crash.[100] Reviews were mixed, with Empire calling the film "a pleasingly intricate double (or is it triple?) revenge plot anchored by excellent acting" and The Hollywood Reporter saying that "[J.H.] Wyman's script and the measured pace don't lend themselves to the necessary escalating tension that would have resulted in a more rewarding climax."[101] The New York Times' Manola Dargis called the film a failure, but said of the actor: "Farrell and his sensitive, hardworking eyebrows help keep it from becoming a full-bore lampoon."[102] Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News also disliked the film; it contained "a lot to roll your eyes over" and, while Farrell was commendable, he was "as stoic as a statue".[103]

In 2014, Farrell starred in a film adaptation of Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale. The film was written and directed by Akiva Goldsman and based on Helprin's 1983 novel, and co-starred Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, and Will Smith. Farrell won the lead role over younger actors Garrett Hedlund, Tom Hiddleston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.[104] Although the film generally received negative reviews due to the overly romantic nature of the film,[105] writers such as The Village Voice's Stephanie Zacharek had nothing but praise for Farrell. She described him as "an extraordinary appealing actor" who "has always made a terrific bad boy, but ... seems to be settling into some very serious, responsible-adult roles."[105]Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle agreed, writing that the actor "holds the movie together" and is part of "the most beautiful [love scene] so far of 2014."[106]

His work as the alcoholic father that P.L. Travers adores in Saving Mr. Banks got contrasting reviews with Variety's Scott Foundras calling it "excellent"[107] and Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter "his best work in some time"[108] but The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw describing it as "bland" and "uninspired"[109] and The Telegraph's Robbie Collin expressing that the actor was wrong for the role.[110]

In 2007, Farrell joined other celebrities as a spokesman for the Special Olympics World Games in Shanghai, China.[119] He has also lent his support to the anti-bullying campaign Stand Up! organised by the Irish LGBT youth organisation BeLonG To in March 2012.[120] The actor appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show two years earlier to increase awareness of the subject.[121] In 2015 Farrell became an official Ambassador of the Homeless World Cup which uses street football to inspire homeless people to change their lives.[122]

Farrell met English actress and singer Amelia Warner at the premiere of Quills in 2000. They dated from July to November 2001.[19] There was speculation that they married; of the experience, the actor said "Too fast, too young."[12] However, in December 2011 Warner told The Sun that the marriage was never legal: "We had a ceremony on a beach in Tahiti that was by no means legal and we knew it wasn't... It was just a thing we did on holiday. We went shark feeding and then we did that. We booked them both on the activities desk at the hotel."[123] Farrell has a tattoo of Amelia's name around his ring finger.

Farrell and Kim Bordenave became parents of a son (James Padraig),[130] born in 2003, in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. In October 2007 he said his son has Angelman syndrome, a rare genetic disorder characterised by intellectual and developmental delay, lack of speech and a happy, excitable demeanor.[131]

From 2007 to 2008 the actor dated Muireann McDonnell, an Irish[12] medical student.[132][133]

Farrell and British-American writer Emma Forrest dated for over a year, an experience she discusses in depth in her memoir Your Voice in My Head (focusing on her relationship with her therapist, who died unexpectedly);[134] it is a planned film starring either Emily Blunt or Emma Watson,[135] and Stanley Tucci, and directed by Francesca Gregorini. According to Forrest, she and Farrell planned to have a child together before he ended the relationship.

In December 2005, Farrell checked into a rehabilitation treatment centre for addictions to recreational drugs and painkillers.[140] He spoke about it on the Late Show with David Letterman after coming out of rehab[140] and continued to do so in the years following.[94][141] "There was an energy that was created," he says of the time when he was addicted, "a character that was created, that no doubt benefited me. And then there was a stage where it all began to crumble around me."[141]

On 20 July 2006, as Farrell was being interviewed by Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, telephone sex worker Dessarae Bradford evaded security, walked on stage, confronted Farrell, and threw a self-published book-length exposé of Farrell on Leno's desk. As Farrell escorted her off the stage and handed her over to NBC security, she shouted "I'll see you in court!" After being held by the Burbank police, Bradford was released. The next day, Farrell obtained a restraining order against her[142] and the incident was edited out of the broadcast.[143]

Bradford had twice attempted to sue Farrell for abusive messages, but the lawsuits were dismissed due to a lack of evidence.[143][144] She failed a lie detector test on an Ion Television programme when attempting to prove her claims.[145]

In January 2006, Farrell filed a lawsuit against his former girlfriend, Playboy model Nicole Narain, and the Internet Commerce Group (ICG) for the unauthorised public distribution of a 13-minute sex tape which they made in 2003.[146] He was offered $5 million for its rights.[147] While ICG tried to release it, Narain said that she would work with Farrell to ensure that the tape remained private; Farrell said she tried to release it to damage his acting career and "make money out of it", a claim Narain denies.[148][149] On 16 April 2006 they reached a confidential settlement; Farrell's lawsuit against ICG continued, with a trial date of 21 July 2006. Eventually, it was settled amicably.[150]

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San Diego Comic-Con
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium

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Castleknock
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Castleknock is a suburb of Dublin and a civil parish in Fingal, Ireland. It is located 8 km west of the centre of Dublin, the N3 Navan Road also serves the area. The Royal Canal and the Dublin-Sligo railway line pass through the area from east to west, the village of Castleknock is in the Dublin 15 postal area. The Dublin Suburban Rail the Western Suburban Railway Line or Maynooth Line running from Dublin Connolly to Maynooth, Castleknock railway station opened on 2 July 1990. As part of the governments Transport 21 strategy, a Metro line was planned, from the suburb of Tallaght, through the neighbourhood of Castleknock. Another stop will be provided at the Millennium Park with the line going around the perimeter rather than cutting through it as had originally been envisaged. It will then proceed around by McDonalds before its major stop in Dublin 15 adjacent to Draíocht, the Civic Offices, and the shopping centre. Its path will then continue around the Westend side of the centre, past Westpoint where it will cross the Navan Road. Public transport in Castleknock is provided by Dublin Bus routes 37 and 38, the 37 bus runs from Blanchardstown Town Centre to Wilton Terrace, Baggot Street. Also, The 38 bus runs from Burlington Rd. Towards Damastown, St. Brigid is the patron saint of the village. Cnucha, the daughter of Concadh Cas, From the land of Luimncach broad and green, the woman was buried, a grief it was. In the very middle of the hill, So that from that on Cnucha Is its name until the judgment, the Barony of Castleknock was originally a feudal lordship created in the 12th century for the Tyrell family, it passed by inheritance to the Burnell family. The first Baron, Hugh Tyrrel, gave lands in the barony at Kilmainham to the Knights of St. John who continue in the today in the form of St. John Ambulance. Later, civil parishes, based on the boundaries of the Ecclesiastical parishes of the Established church were used to sub-divide the barony and this table lists the nine civil parishes of the barony. Note 1, the entire barony lies north of the River Liffey, the parish of St Judes, which consists of six townlands, is situated on both banks of the Liffey. According to the 6 inch historical maps from the Ordnance Survey of Ireland that were created in 1829, only the later map of 1889, at a scale of 25 inches, displays the parish. Within the civil parish of Castleknock, there are 22 townlands per the table below, like all civil parishes in Ireland, this civil parish is derived from, and co-extensive with, a pre-existing parish of the Church of Ireland. In 1837, Lewis directory reported that the living was a vicarage in the diocese of Dublin which was

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Dublin
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Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Dublin is in the province of Leinster on Irelands east coast, the city has an urban area population of 1,345,402. The population of the Greater Dublin Area, as of 2016, was 1,904,806 people, founded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin became Irelands principal city following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire before the Acts of Union in 1800, following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland. Dublin is administered by a City Council, the city is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network as a global city, with a ranking of Alpha-, which places it amongst the top thirty cities in the world. It is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration, economy, the name Dublin comes from the Irish word Dubhlinn, early Classical Irish Dubhlind/Duibhlind, dubh /d̪uβ/, alt. /d̪uw/, alt /d̪u, / meaning black, dark, and lind /lʲiɲ pool and this tidal pool was located where the River Poddle entered the Liffey, on the site of the castle gardens at the rear of Dublin Castle. In Modern Irish the name is Duibhlinn, and Irish rhymes from Dublin County show that in Dublin Leinster Irish it was pronounced Duílinn /d̪ˠi, other localities in Ireland also bear the name Duibhlinn, variously anglicized as Devlin, Divlin and Difflin. Historically, scribes using the Gaelic script wrote bh with a dot over the b and those without knowledge of Irish omitted the dot, spelling the name as Dublin. Variations on the name are found in traditionally Irish-speaking areas of Scotland, such as An Linne Dhubh. It is now thought that the Viking settlement was preceded by a Christian ecclesiastical settlement known as Duibhlinn, beginning in the 9th and 10th century, there were two settlements where the modern city stands. Baile Átha Cliath, meaning town of the ford, is the common name for the city in modern Irish. Áth Cliath is a name referring to a fording point of the River Liffey near Father Mathew Bridge. Baile Átha Cliath was an early Christian monastery, believed to have been in the area of Aungier Street, there are other towns of the same name, such as Àth Cliath in East Ayrshire, Scotland, which is Anglicised as Hurlford. Although the area of Dublin Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times and he called the settlement Eblana polis. It is now thought that the Viking settlement was preceded by a Christian ecclesiastical settlement known as Duibhlinn, beginning in the 9th and 10th century, there were two settlements where the modern city stands. The subsequent Scandinavian settlement centred on the River Poddle, a tributary of the Liffey in an area now known as Wood Quay, the Dubhlinn was a small lake used to moor ships, the Poddle connected the lake with the Liffey. This lake was covered during the early 18th century as the city grew, the Dubhlinn lay where the Castle Garden is now located, opposite the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle

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Gaiety School of Acting
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The Gaiety School of Acting is an Irish drama school. It is located on Essex Street West in Temple Bar, Dublin 8, the school was founded in 1986 by actor and director Joe Dowling in response to the lack of full-time actor training in Ireland at the time. The schools runs a two year full-time Professional Actor Training course the GSA also runs many part-time and youth courses in locations across the city of Dublin, MA in Theatre Practice in association with University College Dublin

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Ballykissangel
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Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama created by Kieran Prendiville and set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community and it ran for six series, which were first broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2001. It aired in Ireland on RTÉ One and in Australia on ABC TV from 1996 to 2001, reruns have been aired on Drama in the United Kingdom and in the United States on some PBS affiliates. Significant changes in the cast occurred at the end of series 3 following the departure of central characters Peter Clifford, the show faced a decline in ratings from a peak level of 10 million viewers to 4.8 million and was eventually cancelled in 2001. The villages name in Irish is shown as Baile Coisc Aingeal, the show was filmed in Avoca and Enniskerry in County Wicklow. The programme ran for six series from 11 February 1996 to 15 April 2001, almost all episodes were 50 minutes in duration. All six series have released in Region 1,2 and 4. In 2010, four years after the release of series 5, series 6 was released on Region 2, the ninth episode of series 3, The Waiting Game, is omitted from the Region 2 series 3 DVD. This is not the case for Region 1 sets, which contain this episode, Ballykissangel at the British Film Institute Ballykissangel at the Internet Movie Database Ballykissangel at TV. com Official website. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012, cS1 maint, BOT, original-url status unknown

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Tim Roth
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Timothy Simon Tim Roth is an English actor and director. He made his role in the 1982 television film Made in Britain. He garnered critical acclaim for his role as Myron in the 1984 film The Hit, Roth gained more attention for his performances in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Vincent & Theo and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. He later earned international recognition for appearing in Quentin Tarantinos films, such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms and The Hateful Eight. For the historical drama Rob Roy, Roth won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and he made his directorial debut with The War Zone, for which he received numerous accolades. Roth attended the Strand School in Tulse Hill, as a young man, he wanted to be a sculptor and studied at Londons Camberwell College of Art. Roth made his acting début at the age of 21, playing a white power skinhead named Trevor in a 1982 TV film titled Made in Britain. He played an East End character in King of the Ghetto and he played a shy young man in the 1984 Mike Leigh film Meantime. In 1985, he appeared in the television film Murder with Mirrors and he played an apprentice hitman in Stephen Frears The Hit, earning an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer. In 1989 he had a role as the buffoonish lackey Mitchell in Peter Greenaways The Cook. In 1990, he starred as Vincent van Gogh in Robert Altmans Vincent & Theo, Roth and other young British actors of the time, such as Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bruce Payne, and Paul McGann, were dubbed the Brit Pack. Roth was cast as Mr. Orange in Quentin Tarantinos 1992 film Reservoir Dogs, in 1994, Tarantino cast him as a robber in Pulp Fiction. They also collaborated in the 1995 film Four Rooms, where he played Ted and his role as Archibald Cunningham in Rob Roy earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, a Golden Globe nomination. In 1996, he starred in Woody Allens musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You and he also starred as Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900 in The Legend of 1900, and in the same year and he made his directorial debut in 1999 with The War Zone, a film version of Alexander Stuarts novel. In 2001, he portrayed General Thade in Tim Burtons Planet of the Apes, Roth was the original choice for the role of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, but he turned it down for Planet of the Apes. He was considered for the part of Hannibal Lecter in the 2001 film Hannibal before Anthony Hopkins returned to reclaim the role and he appeared in Francis Ford Coppolas Youth Without Youth and Michael Hanekes Funny Games, then starred as Emil Blonsky / Abomination in The Incredible Hulk. From 2009 to 2011, he starred in a series on Fox called Lie To Me and he played Dr. Cal Lightman, an expert on body language who assists local and federal law organisations in the investigations of crimes

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The War Zone
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The War Zone is a 1999 British drama film written by Alexander Stuart, directed by Tim Roth in his directorial debut, and starring Ray Winstone, Tilda Swinton, Lara Belmont and Freddie Cunliffe. The film is based on Stuarts 1989 novel of the name and takes a blunt look at incest. 15-year-old Tom is upset after his move from London to a rural house in Devon. He lives with Dad, 18-year-old sister Jessie, and Mum, Tom and Jessie are close to each other and everyone helps Mum during her pregnancy. One night, Mum goes into labour and is driven to the hospital by Dad, accompanied by Tom, the car crashes, but nobody is injured and a baby girl is born to much joy around the family. While coming home from shopping with Mum, Tom tells her he doesnt know anybody, when they arrive home, Tom enters the house through the backdoor and something catches his attention. Tom confronts Jessie and asks about what he saw, Dad and Jessie, Jessie acts as if nothing happened, but he is definite about what he witnessed. The family go out to a bar and Jessie introduces Tom to her boyfriend Nick, the three go out to a beach and engage in awkward conversation. After returning home Tom tells Jessie he suspects her and dads behaviour has been ongoing, Jessie neither confirms or denies this causing Tom to lash out in anger. Later on, Dad tells Mum and Tom he is going for a run, full of suspicion and armed with a video camera, Tom follows Dad and Jessie into an old war bunker on their ocean-side property to film them. Filming through a hole in the wall he witnesses Dad anally raping Jessie, Tom walks off and, devastated, throws the camera into the sea. Tom accuses Jessie of being sick because of her actions with their father, Jessie lets him burn her breast with a lighter in order to make him feel better. Later she takes Tom on a trip to London to see her friend Carol who attempts to him at Jessies behest. One night, Tom is woken up by Mum, who tells him there is a problem with the baby, at the hospital, Dad and Jessie go home, leaving Tom with Mum and the baby. Tom decides to tell Mum what he saw but becomes scared, Mum takes Tom to see the baby, who is bleeding. He tells Mum never to let Dad near the baby, before she can respond, he leaves. When Tom returns home, Dad tells him that Mum called from the hospital, while Dad confronts him, Jessie begins crying. Dad asks Tom why he would lie to the family, Dad demands to know why he said such horrible things about him

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Joel Schumacher
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Joel T. Schumacher is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing The Incredible Shrinking Woman, St. Elmos Fire, Batman Forever, A Time to Kill, Batman & Robin, Phone Booth, The Phantom of the Opera and The Number 23. Before he launched his career as a director, Schumacher also wrote the adaptation of The Wiz. Schumacher was born in New York City. His mother was a Swedish Jew, and his father was a Baptist from Knoxville, Tennessee, Schumacher studied at Parsons The New School for Design and The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. After first working in the industry, he realized his true love was in filmmaking. Schumachers first screenplay was for the musical drama Sparkle in 1976 and he also wrote the screenplays for the 1976 low-budget hit movie Car Wash, 1978s The Wiz — an adaptation of the stage play of the same name — and a number of other minor successes. His film directorial debut was The Incredible Shrinking Woman in 1981, the Brat Pack films St. Elmos Fire and The Lost Boys were two of Schumachers biggest hits. Their style impressed audiences and their success allowed studios to trust him with ever-larger projects. He states in the commentary for St. Elmos Fire that he resents the Brat Pack label. Schumacher has directed two adaptations of John Grishams novels, The Client and A Time to Kill, Grisham personally requested that Schumacher return to direct A Time to Kill. Schumacher replaced Tim Burton as the director of the Batman film franchise when he directed Batman Forever in 1995, val Kilmer replaced Michael Keaton in the title role, despite a lukewarm critical reception, the film scored the highest-grossing opening weekend of 1995. It finished as the second highest-grossing film of the year in North America, after this success, Warner Bros. hired Schumacher to direct a sequel, Batman & Robin, in 1997. The film did not perform as well at the box office as its predecessors, Warner Bros. subsequently put the Batman movie series on hiatus, canceling Schumachers next planned Batman movie, Batman Unchained. On the DVD commentary, Schumacher has admitted that his movie disappointed fans of darker Batman adaptations, saying that the film was made intentionally marketable and kid-friendly. He claims to have been under pressure from the studio to do so, however, he admits full responsibility and, at one point. Schumacher is a devoted Batman fan himself, and has said he would have preferred an adaptation of the comic Batman. After back-to-back Grisham and Batman films, Schumacher decided to reinvent his career with darker, lower-budget fare like 8MM with Nicolas Cage, 8MM was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1999, Schumacher also directed the video for Letting the Cables Sleep by English rock band Bush

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Tigerland
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Tigerland was the name of a U. S. Army training camp during the mid-1960s to early 1970s located at Fort Polk, Louisiana as part of the U. S. Army Advanced Infantry Training Center. As often the last stop for new infantrymen on their way to Vietnam, Tigerland was established in humid, while the films setting is loosely based on Fort Polk, the film was actually filmed at Camp Blanding in Florida. It is September 1971 and it is clear that the US is losing the Vietnam War, in the opinion of the average American soldier who came of age during the Peace movement of the 1960s, Vietnam was lost a long time ago. Roland Bozz, a draftee who is opposed to the war, is shown to be a soldier with no respect for authority, he disobeys orders. He quickly befriends another recruit, Jim Paxton, a writer who records his experiences in a personal journal. Unlike Bozz, Paxton volunteered for the Army, upon reaching their post, the company commanding officer Captain Saunders makes it clear that every soldier who passes through Fort Polk and Tigerland will be sent to Vietnam. He also states that any political views on the war are irrelevant at this point, as the film progresses, another side of Bozz is shown. At one point, another soldier approaches Bozz while on leave and asks for help getting out, saying I was told if you dont wanna go to Nam, you either pray to Jesus, Bozz also shows his reasoning behind being opposed to the war, his human compassion. Eventually Bozzs natural leadership and ability earns him the title of squad leader, another private, Wilson, a racial bigot and instigator, continuously demeans Miter and Bozz. Bozz is the one that retaliates, which results in a fight between the two. Paxton helps break up the fight and also earns the hatred of Wilson, later, while doing live fire exercises, Wilson threatens Bozz with a pistol. Bozz tries to disarm Wilson, and the two wrestle each other to the ground, Wilson getting the upper hand and putting the gun to the back of Bozzs head, miraculously, the gun misfires, saving Bozzs life. The Commanding Officer lets Bozz choose the punishment, have Wilson court-martialed or let me deal with him, Bozz leaves the office saying he wants Wilson out. The platoon is sent to Tigerland, a training area designed as the best possible replica of Vietnam. During an exercise, Bozzs squad acts as villagers in a mock Vietnamese village and they compete with another squad charged with rooting out the sympathizer. This other squad is led by Wilson, who was not kicked out of the army after all, as the exercise ends with Bozzs squad winning, Wilson tells Bozz he will kill him no matter what it takes. Soon thereafter, Bozz is about ready to make an escape to Mexico with the aid of some civilians he has paid. Platoon member Johnson sees him and tells him to stop, Johnson tells him if he runs away, Wilson will go after Paxton instead of Bozz and he will be responsible for his friends death

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Phone Booth (film)
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The film received generally positive reviews from film critics and was a box office hit, grossing $97 million worldwide, against a production budget of $13 million. Critics praised Farrells performance and composer Harry Gregson-Williams score, stuart Stu Shepard is an arrogant New York City publicist who has been courting a woman named Pam behind his wife Kelly. He uses the last remaining public phone booth in the city to contact Pam, during the call, he is interrupted by a pizza delivery man, who attempts to deliver a free pizza to him, but Stu rudely turns him away by insulting his weight. As soon as Stu completes his call to Pam, the phone rings, Stu answers, to find that The Caller, who knows his name, warns him not to leave the booth, and says he will say hello to Pam for him. He also says he will call Kelly, leaving Stu panicked, to demonstrate the threat, the caller fires a suppressed sniper rifle at a toy robot sold by a nearby vendor, the damage is unseen by anyone but Stu, the caller, and the vendor. The caller demands that Stu confess his feelings for Pam to both Kelly and Pam to avoid being killed, the caller contacts Pam, and puts her on line with Stu, who reveals that he is married. The caller then hangs up, telling Stu to call Kelly himself, as Stu hesitates, the booth is approached by three prostitutes demanding to use the phone. Stu refuses to leave, having been warned by the caller to stay in the booth, Leon, the prostitutes pimp, joins his charges, smashes the side of the booth, grabs at Stu in a headlock and starts punching him. The caller offers to make him stop and asks if Stu can hear him, Leon staggers away before collapsing dead in the street. The prostitutes immediately blame Stu, making a scene over Leons body, accusing him of having a gun as the police, both Kelly and Pam soon arrive on the scene. The caller demands that Stu tell Kelly the truth, which he does, the caller then orders Stu to choose between Kelly and Pam, and the woman he does not choose will be killed. While on the phone with the caller, Stu secretly uses his phone to call Kelly. She, in turn, quietly informs Captain Ramey of this, meanwhile, Stu continues to confess to everyone that his whole life is a lie, to make himself look more important than he really is or even feels. Stus confession provides sufficient distraction to allow the police to trace the call to a nearby building. Stu warns the caller that the police are on the way, panicked, Stu grabs the handgun and leaves the booth, screaming for the sniper to kill him instead of Kelly. The police fire upon Stu, while a smaller force breaks into the room that the caller was tracked to, only to find the gun, Stu regains consciousness to find the police fired only rubber bullets at him, stunning but not harming him. As the police bring down the body, Stu identifies it as the delivery man from earlier. The man disappears into the crowd with Stu unable to call out because he has been sedated by the paramedics, as he does, someone else is being called from that same line

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S.W.A.T. (film)
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S. W. A. T. is a 2003 American action crime thriller film directed by Clark Johnson, and is based on the 1975 television series of the same name. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J and it was produced by Neal H. Moritz and released in the United States on August 8,2003. Jim Street, a former U. S. Navy SEAL and hot-shot cop from the Los Angeles Police Department and his high-tempered partner and close friend Brian Gamble disobeys an order to hold their position and engages the bank robbers, accidentally wounding a hostage in the process. Gamble and Street are demoted by Captain Fuller, the commander of the LAPD Metropolitan Division, Gamble quits following an intense argument with Fuller, and Street is taken off the team and sent to work in the gun cage, where he looks after the gear and weaponry. Six months after the incident, the chief of police calls on Sergeant Daniel Hondo Harrelson to help re-organize the SWAT platoon, Hondo puts together a diverse team, including himself, Street, Christina Sánchez, Deacon Kaye, TJ McCabe, and Michael Boxer. The team members train together, eventually forging bonds of friendship, as a result, their first mission to subdue an unstable gunman is a success. Meanwhile, French drug lord Alexander Alex Montel arrives in Los Angeles and goes to a restaurant to kill his uncle for holding back the family money from him. But as Montel is being transferred to prison, his associates, dressed as LAPD officers, Hondos team arrives in time to kill the two gunmen and recapture Montel. As Montel, under SWAT escort, approaches the station, reporters crowd around them. The LAPD makes plans to transfer Montel into federal custody and they initially plan for travel by air, but a mysterious attacker shoots down the helicopter with a high-powered rifle. The police next send out a large convoy, which gang members attack and discover to be a decoy, at the same time as Hondos team is spiriting Montel away in two SUVs. However, while driving Montel into federal custody, TJ had been plotting with Gamble, Hondo and the rest of his team give chase for a final battle against Gambles group. Fuller later informs them that Gamble intends to fly Montel out of the United States, Fuller dispatches every officer to an airport to prevent the escape. As Hondo and his SWAT team race across town, they observe a plane flying at lower than normal altitudes and they decide to go after the plane, as available units are at the airport and wont make it in time. Before Gambles group can take off, the team intercepts it, TJ commits suicide out of remorse for his betrayal of the team and to avoid being captured. Street pursues and inadvertently kills Gamble by knocking him under the wheels of a passing train, Fuller and the rest of the LAPD arrive to take care of everything else. Fuller thanks Hondo and his team for their success but tells them the job wasnt finished as Montel was not yet in federal custody, Hondo and his team deliver Montel to a federal prison to await trial. Samuel L. J. McCabe Brian Van Holt as Officer Michael Boxer Ken Davitian as Martin Gascoigne Reg E. Forrest drives the van while Perry

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The Recruit
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The Recruit is a 2003 American spy thriller film, directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Al Pacino, Colin Farrell and Bridget Moynahan. It was produced by Epsilon Motion Pictures and released in North America by Touchstone Pictures on January 31,2003, receiving mixed reviews from critics and grossing $101 million worldwide. Having taken note of his skills, senior Central Intelligence Agency instructor Walter Burke also approaches Clayton to recruit him for a position with the Agency, after passing numerous psychometric, psychoanalytic, aptitudinal, and polygraphic tests, Clayton is taken to The Farm, a CIA training facility. There, Burke and other instructors teach the candidates the skill sets of espionage, covert operation protocols, during a surveillance exercise, Clayton and fellow recruit Layla Moore are kidnapped by men apparently from a foreign intelligence service. Clayton is tortured in a cell for several days, but refuses to give up the names of his instructors, when the interrogators show him evidence that they have also tortured Layla, Clayton gives in. The CIA summarily dismisses Clayton and he checks into a hotel. Burke arrives and states that instead of being fired, the dismissal itself was staged so that Clayton could become a non-official cover agent, Burke suspects that the Farm has a penetration, who is trying to steal a computer virus from the headquarters. Because he believes the traitor may be Layla, he assigns Clayton to approach her based on their previous attraction, Burke gives Clayton a low-level desk job at Headquarters so he can get close to Layla. Clayton finds proof that Layla is removing the piece by piece using a USB flash drive. Clayton watches Layla as she passes a note to her contact. After a brief scuffle, Clayton kills him and discovers that he was Zack, torn between two conflicting statements, Clayton decides to suspect Burke and trust Layla, believing her show of emotion to be genuine. Clayton reports back to Burke, who congratulates Clayton on passing the final test, Clayton responds by demanding to know why Zack was killed, but Burke replies that Claytons gun was loaded with blanks, and that Zacks death was a ruse. However, when Clayton tries to test Burke by firing the blanks in his gun at Burke, he deflects and shoots the window instead. Burke chases Clayton through an abandoned ware-house, and boasts that he organized the scheme to sell the virus for $3 million, Clayton escapes long enough to set up a laptop and load the Spartacus software with the intent to broadcast Burkes confession to the CIA. When the CIA comes to arrest Clayton for Zacks death, Burke, believing that he is finally caught, the CIA agents conclude that Burke is the real traitor and instruct the officers on site to target him instead. Burke realizes too late that Clayton did not have the time to set up the Spartacus software, having incriminated himself, he reiterates that he was an excellent recruiter, having correctly determined that Clayton was CIA material. He then draws his gun, forcing the CIA to shoot, Layla consoles Clayton before he rides back with the CIA agents for debriefing. C. Reviews of the film were mixed, review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 43% based on 163 reviews with, an average rating of 5.5 out of 10

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Steven Spielberg
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Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE, OMRI is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the pioneers of the New Hollywood era. He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios, in a career spanning more than four decades, Spielbergs films have spanned many themes and genres. His other films include Jurassic Park, A. I, artificial Intelligence, and War of the Worlds. Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindlers List and Saving Private Ryan, three of Spielbergs films—Jaws, E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park—achieved box office records, originated and came to epitomize the blockbuster film. The unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $9 billion worldwide and his personal net worth is estimated to be more than $3 billion. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to an Orthodox Jewish family and his mother, Leah Posner, was a restaurateur and concert pianist, and his father, Arnold Spielberg, was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers. His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine who settled in Cincinnati in the first decade of the 1900s, in 1950, his family moved to Haddon Township, New Jersey when his father took a job with RCA. Three years later, the moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Spielberg attended Hebrew school from 1953 to 1957, in classes taught by Rabbi Albert L. Lewis, as a child, Spielberg faced difficulty reconciling being an Orthodox Jew with the perception of him by other children he played with. It isnt something I enjoy admitting, he said, but when I was seven, eight, nine years old, God forgive me. I was embarrassed by the perception of my parents Jewish practices. I was never really ashamed to be Jewish, but I was uneasy at times, Spielberg also said he suffered from acts of anti-Semitic prejudice and bullying, In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. His first home movie was of a wreck involving his toy Lionel trains. Throughout his early teens, and after entering school, Spielberg continued to make amateur 8 mm adventure films. In 1958, he became a Boy Scout and fulfilled a requirement for the merit badge by making a nine-minute 8 mm film entitled The Last Gunfight. Years later, Spielberg recalled to an interviewer, My dads still-camera was broken. He said yes, and I got an idea to do a Western, I made it and got my merit badge

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Minority Report (film)
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Minority Report is a 2002 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story of the same name by Philip K. Dick. Spielberg has characterized the story as fifty percent character and fifty percent very complicated storytelling with layers and layers of murder mystery, the films central theme is the question of free will versus determinism. It examines whether free will can exist if the future is set, the film was first optioned in 1992 as a sequel to another Dick adaptation, Total Recall, and started its development in 1997, after a script by Jon Cohen reached Spielberg and Cruise. Production suffered many delays due to Cruises Mission, Impossible II and Spielbergs A. I. running over schedule, Minority Report has a unique visual style. It uses high contrast to dark colors and shadows, much like a film noir picture. The films overlit shots feature desaturated colors which were achieved by bleach-bypassing the films negative in post-production, Minority Report was one of the best reviewed films of 2002. It received praise for its writing, visuals and themes, the film was nominated for and won several awards. The film was a success, earning over $358 million worldwide against an overall budget of $142 million. Over four million DVDs were sold in its first few months of home release, in April 2054, Washington, D. C. s PreCrime police stops murderers before they act, reducing the murder rate to zero. Murders are predicted using three mutated humans, called Precogs, who previsualize crimes by receiving visions of the future, would-be murderers are imprisoned in their own happy virtual reality. The Federal government is on the verge of adopting the controversial program, since the disappearance of his son Sean, PreCrime Captain John Anderton has both separated from his wife Lara and become a drug addict. While United States Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer is auditing the program, Anderton does not know Crow, but flees the area as Witwer begins a manhunt. Anderton seeks the advice of Dr. Iris Hineman, the creator of PreCrime technology, Anderton resolves to recover the minority report to prove his innocence. Anderton goes to a black market doctor for an eye transplant so as to avoid the citywide optical recognition system. He returns to PreCrime and kidnaps Agatha, shutting down the system, Anderton and Agatha go to Crows hotel room as the 36-hour time nears, finding numerous photos of children, including Seans. Crow arrives and Anderton prepares to him, accusing him to be a serial child killer. Agatha talks Anderton out of shooting Crow by telling him that he has the ability to choose his future now that he is aware of it. Crow however begs to be killed, having been hired to plant the photos, Crow grabs Andertons gun and pushes the trigger, killing himself

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Bullseye (comics)
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Bullseye is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A psychopathic assassin, Bullseye uses the opportunities afforded by his line of work to exercise his homicidal tendencies and his marksmanship is uncanny, at a nearly supernatural level, but he has been known to miss moving targets. In the Daredevil live-action film, the character is portrayed by actor Colin Farrell, Bullseye was 20th in IGNs list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time, and 35th in their list of The Top 50 Avengers. Although created by Marv Wolfman and John Romita, Sr. the characters first appearance in Daredevil #131 features art by Bob Brown, Bullseyes real name and origins are unknown. He has used the name Benjamin Poindexter on several occasions, the miniseries Bullseye, Greatest Hits developed the characters back-story, but also revealed that some or all of it has been fabricated, probably by Bullseye himself. In this series, Bullseyes name was Leonard, following Civil War, Warren Ellis took over writing Thunderbolts and Bullseye became one of the core members of the new team line-up. As a member of the Dark Avengers, he has a role in the crossover Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men, Utopia. He appeared as a character in the Dark Avengers series from issue #1 through issue #16. Bullseye is killed by Daredevil in Shadowland #1, but is confirmed alive in issue #26 of the third Daredevil comic book series. Bullseye grew up in The Bronx, where he lived with his brother and his brothers main form of recreation was playing with rifles, leading Bullseye to become an expert shot. When he was 10 years old, his brother started a fire in their home in an attempt to kill their father. Shortly thereafter, Bullseye was placed in a home. Bullseye was a talented pitcher, and was offered a scholarship. After three games, he was called up to play a sold-out Major League game and he had surrendered no hits the entire game, and in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, he became bored and requested the coach pull him from the game. The coach refused, and insisted that he finish the game, the opposing teams batter mocked him, accusing him of cowardice. Bullseye threw the ball at his head, killing him, as the ball struck, he said only one word, Bullseye. He was barred from baseball and convicted of manslaughter. This is a retcon of an origin story from Elektra #2

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Daredevil (film)
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Daredevil is a 2003 American superhero film written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson. The film began development in 1997 at 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures, Johnson shot the film primarily in Downtown Los Angeles despite the Hells Kitchen, Manhattan setting of the film and comics. Rhythm and Hues Studios were hired to handle the films CGI, Graeme Revell composed the Daredevil score which was released on CD in March 2003, whereas the various artists soundtrack album, Daredevil, The Album, was released in February. Daredevil was released on February 14,2003, despite its critical reaction, the movie became the second-biggest February release to that time and grossed over $179 million against production budget of $78 million. A spin-off film, Elektra, was released in 2005 to critical and commercial failure, in 2004, an R-rated directors cut of Daredevil was released, reincorporating approximately 30 minutes of the film, including a subplot involving a character played by Coolio. A sequel was planned, but because of Elektras failure, this was canceled, a television series, Daredevil, by Netflix and Marvel Studios, followed, premiering in 2015. Matt Murdock is a lawyer in New York Citys Hells Kitchen neighborhood. As a child, Matt was blinded by a toxic waste spill, the accident enhanced Matts other senses and gave him sonar to see via sonic vibrations. Matts father, boxer Jack The Devil, was killed after refusing to turn in a fight for the mobster who had employed him earlier. After his fathers death, Matt promised to all crime that controlled Hells Kitchen. Matt meets Elektra Natchios, daughter of Nikolas Natchios, a businessman who has dealings with Wilson Fisk, when Nikolas tries to end his relationship with Fisk, the mobster hires the Irish hitman Bullseye, who has preternatural aim, to kill him. Matt tries to stop Bullseye, but Bullseye ultimately succeeds in killing Nikolas, Elektra vows to exact revenge, while reporter Ben Urich discovers his secret identity. Believing Matt to have good things for Hells Kitchen, Urich tells Matt that Bullseye is going after Elektra next. Matt tracks Bullseye, but is attacked by Elektra, who plans to use her own training in arts to avenge her fathers death. She defeats and injures Matt, when she manages to remove his mask, she discovers Matts secret identity, forced to fight Bullseye alone, Elektra is overpowered and killed by the hitman. A wounded Matt makes his way to a church, where he is looked after by his confidante, Father Everett, after recovering slightly, Matt fights Bullseye, who had followed him to the church. Bullseye discovers that loud noise is Matts weakness and prepares to him with a spiked piece of wood after incapacitating him. Matt blocks the attack and hears an FBI sniper stationed on the building preparing to fire

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Intermission (film)
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Intermission is a 2003 Irish black comedy crime film directed by John Crowley and written by Mark ORowe. The film, set in Dublin, Ireland, has shot in a documentary-like style. The film opens with a cashier being charmed by Lehiff who after flirting with the girl smashes her in the face and it quickly moves to John and Deirdre who are a recently separated young couple. The film will revolve around their extended friends and it is quickly revealed that Lehiff is a petty criminal always involved in trouble. Lehiffs nemesis, Garda Detective Jerry Lynch who presents himself as a saviour whose main mission is to fight the scumbags on Dublins streets, next up is Mick a Dublin bus driver. While on his route Sally boards and is shown to be insecure about her looks. She asks Mick about some hair on her lip and he mocks her playfully, as the bus journey continues a young boy called Philip is shown throwing a rock at his bus resulting in a bad crash that Ben winds up shooting the aftermath of. Ben is told to focus his attention on Sally, Deirdres sister, who helped the passengers after the double-decker bus crashed. She grows bitter when Deirdre flaunts her new boyfriend, Sam, John is utterly lost without Deirdre and is determined to win her back. Mick having become suspended from his job and low on funds come up with a scheme involving Lehiff and they kidnap Sam and force him to go to his bank to get money for a ransom. Just as the plan seems to be working out everything goes wrong as Sam, is assaulted by his enraged wife Noeleen on the street, Mick and John flee the scene without their money. Mick, later loses his job after he is blamed for the bus crash. After chasing the kid down in his car he loses control and is left balancing over the canal, Philip is sitting on the bonnet and jumps off letting the car drop into the canal. Detective Lynch chases down and corners Lehiff in an open field, unfortunately he miscalculates and Lehiff gets the upper hand and threatens to kill him. Ben snatches at the gun and shoots Lehiff and Lynch covers it all up, as the credits roll, Noeleen and Sam are shown to have reunited in their house watching television. She is sitting purposely on the control and bullying him into changing the channels by hand. The film was received by critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 73% based on 93 reviews, with the critical consensus describing the film as An edgy

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A Home at the End of the World (film)
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A Home at the End of the World is a 2004 drama film directed by Michael Mayer. The screenplay by Michael Cunningham was adapted from his 1990 novel of the same title, Jonathan, who is slowly coming out as a homosexual, initiates Bobby into adolescent mutual masturbation during their frequent sleepovers. When Alice catches them both masturbating in a car, Jonathan, embarrassed, tells Bobby he is going to leave as soon as he finishes high school, Bobby moves in, and the three create their own household. Although Jonathan is openly gay and highly promiscuous, he is committed to Clare. Clare seduces and starts a relationship with Bobby, and she becomes pregnant by him. Their romance occasionally is disrupted by sparks of jealousy between the two men until Jonathan, tired of being the wheel, disappears without warning. He re-enters their lives when his father Ned dies and Bobby and Clare travel to Phoenix, Arizona for the services. The three take Neds car back east with them, and they decide to buy a house near Woodstock, New York. Jonathan discovers what appears to be a Kaposis sarcoma lesion on his groin and, although Bobby tries to him its simply a bruise. Clare begins to feel left out, seeing the close relationship Jonathan and it grossed $64,728 on five screens on its opening weekend. It eventually earned $1,029,872 in the US, scott of The New York Times observed, As a novelist Mr. Cunningham can carry elusive, complex emotions on the current of his lovely, intelligent prose. So thoroughly decent in its intentions and so tactful in its methods that people are likely to themselves that its better than it is. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, The movie exists outside our expectations for such stories, the three-member household is puzzling not only to us, but to its members. We expect conflict, resolution, a happy or sad. Colin Farrell is astonishing in the movie, not least because the character is such a departure from everything he has done before, mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle stated, What we have here. Is a movie about a friendship and about the nature of families. We also have a movie about what it was like to be a child in the late 1960s, a teenager in the mid-1970s, in these aspects, the film is sensitive, sociologically accurate and emotionally true. But the picture is also the story of one character in particular, Bobby, and he added, Farrell is not the first actor anyone would cast as an innocent, and he seems to know that and is keen on making good

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Oliver Stone
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William Oliver Stone is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express and he also wrote the acclaimed gangster movie Scarface. As a director, Stone achieved prominence as director/writer of the war drama Platoon, for which Stone won the Academy Award for Best Director, Platoon was the first in a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served as an infantry soldier. He continued the series with Born on the Fourth of July —for which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and Heaven & Earth. Many of Stones films focus on controversial American political issues during the late 20th century and they often combine different camera and film formats within a single scene, as evidenced in JFK, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon. Stone was born September 15,1946, in New York City, the son of Jacqueline and Louis Stone and he grew up in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut. His parents met during World War II, when his father was fighting as a part of the Allied force in France and his American-born father was a non-practicing Jew, and his French-born mother was a non-practicing Roman Catholic. Stone was raised in the Episcopal Church, and now practices Buddhism, Stone attended Trinity School in New York City before his parents sent him away to The Hill School, a college-preparatory school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. His parents were divorced abruptly while he was away at school, Stones mother was often absent and his father made a big impact on his life, father-son relationships were to feature heavily in Stones films. He often spent parts of his vacations with his maternal grandparents in France. Stone also worked at 17 in the Paris mercantile exchange in sugar, Stone graduated from The Hill School in 1964. Stone was admitted into Yale University, but left in June 1965 at age 18 to teach school students English for six months in Saigon at the Free Pacific Institute in South Vietnam. Afterwards, he worked as a wiper on a United States Merchant Marine ship in 1966 and he returned to Yale, where he dropped out a second time. In April 1967, Stone enlisted in the United States Army, from September 16,1967 to April 1968, he served in Vietnam with 2nd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Infantry Division and was twice wounded in action. He was then transferred to the First Cavalry Division participating in long range patrols before being transferred again to drive for an infantry unit of the division until November 1968. Stone graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film in 1971, Stone made a short, well received 12-minute film Last Year in Viet Nam. In 1979, Stone won his first Academy Award, after adapting true-life prison story Midnight Express into a hit film for British director Alan Parker. Stones screenplay for Midnight Express was criticized by some for its inaccuracies in portraying the events described in the book, the original author, Billy Hayes, around whom the film is set, spoke out against the film, protesting that he had many Turkish friends while in jail

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Alexander (2004 film)
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Alexander is a 2004 epic historical drama film based on the life of Alexander the Great. It was directed by Oliver Stone, with Colin Farrell in the title role, the film was an original screenplay based in part on the book Alexander the Great, written in the 1970s by the University of Oxford historian Robin Lane Fox. After release, while it performed well in Europe, the American critical reaction was negative and it grossed over $167 million worldwide against a $155 million budget. Four versions of the film exist, the theatrical cut and three home video directors cuts, the Directors Cut in 2005, the Final Cut in 2007. The two earlier DVD versions of Alexander sold over 3.5 million copies in the United States, Oliver Stones third version, Alexander Revisited, The Final Cut has sold to one million copies and became one of the highest-selling catalog items from Warner Bros. The film is based on the life of Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, who conquered Asia Minor, Egypt, Persia, shown are some of the key moments of Alexanders youth, his invasion of the mighty Persian Empire and his death. It also details his plans to reform his empire and the attempts he made to reach the end of the known world. The story begins 40 years after 323 BC, around 283 BC, with Ptolemy I Soter and we see Alexanders daily life and the strained relationship between his parents. Alexander grows up with his mother Olympias and his tutor Aristotle and his relationship with his father is destroyed when Philip marries Attaluss niece, Eurydice. After Philip is assassinated, Alexander becomes King of Macedonia, also shown are Alexanders private relationships with his childhood friend Hephaistion and later his wife Roxana. Hephaistion compares Alexander to Achilles, to which Alexander replies that, if he is Achilles, when Hephaistion mentions that Patroclus died first, Alexander pledges that, if Hephaistion should die first, he will follow him into the afterlife. After initial objection from his soldiers, Alexander convinces them to him into his final and bloodiest battle. He is severely injured with an arrow but survives and is celebrated, later on, Hephaistion succumbs to an unknown illness either by chance or perhaps poison, speculated in the movie to be Typhus carried with him from India. Alexander, full of grief and anger, distances himself from his wife, despite her pregnancy and he dies less than three months after Hephaistion, in the same manner, keeping his promise that he would follow him. On his deathbed, Bagoas grieves as Alexanders generals begin to split up his kingdom, however, he has it recorded that Alexander died due to illness compounding his overall weakened condition. He then goes on to end his memoirs with praise to Alexander, the story then ends with the note that Ptolemys memoirs of Alexander were eventually burned, lost forever with the Library of Alexandria. Upon closing on 1 February 2005, the film grossed $34,297,191 domestically, based on a $155 million budget, the film was a box office bomb. A group of 25 Greek lawyers initially threatened to file a lawsuit against both Stone and the Warner Bros film studio for what they claimed was a portrayal of history

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Terrence Malick
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Terrence Frederick Malick is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood film-making wave with the films Badlands and Days of Heaven, Malicks films have been noted for exploring themes such as individual transcendence, nature, and conflicts between reason and instinct. The stylistic elements of the work have inspired divided opinions among film scholars. Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois and he is the son of Irene and Emil A. Malick, a geologist. His paternal grandparents were Assyrian Christian immigrants from Urmia, Iran, Malick attended St. Stephens Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, while his family lived in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Malick had two brothers, Chris and Larry. Larry Malick was a guitarist who went to study in Spain with Andrés Segovia in the late 1960s, in 1968, Larry intentionally broke his own hands due to pressure over his musical studies. Their father Emil went to Spain to help Larry, but his son died shortly after, the early death of Malicks younger brother has been explored and referenced in his films The Tree of Life and Knight of Cups. Malick received a A. B. in philosophy from Harvard College, graduating cum laude. He did graduate work at Magdalen College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, after a disagreement with his advisor, Gilbert Ryle, over his thesis on the concept of world in Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein, Malick left Oxford without a degree. In 1969, Northwestern University Press published Malicks translation of Heideggers Vom Wesen des Grundes as The Essence of Reasons, after returning to the United States, Malick taught philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology while freelancing as a journalist. He wrote articles for Newsweek, The New Yorker, and Life, Malick started his film career after earning an MFA from the AFI Conservatory in 1969, directing the short film Lanton Mills. At the AFI, he established contacts with people such as actor Jack Nicholson, longtime collaborator Jack Fisk, and agent Mike Medavoy and he wrote early uncredited drafts of Dirty Harry and Drive, He Said, and is credited with the screenplay for Pocket Money. Malick was also co-writer of The Gravy Train, under the pseudonym David Whitney, after one of his screenplays, Deadhead Miles, was made into what Paramount Pictures believed was an unreleasable film, Malick decided to direct his own scripts. Malicks first feature-length work as a director was Badlands, an independent film starring Martin Sheen and it was influenced by the crimes of convicted teenage spree killer Charles Starkweather. Malick raised half of the budget by approaching people outside of the industry, including doctors and dentists, the rest was raised by executive producer Edward R. Pressman. After a troubled production that many crew members leaving halfway through the shoot. As a result, Warner Bros. bought distribution rights for three times its budget, Malicks second film was the Paramount-produced Days of Heaven, about a love triangle that develops in the farm country of the Texas Panhandle in the early 20th century

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The New World (2005 film)
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It is the fourth feature film written and directed by Malick. The cast includes Colin Farrell, Qorianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi, David Thewlis, the New World received many award nominations for Lubezkis cinematography, Kilchers acting, and Horners score. The work was met with an only mildly positive critical response. Aboard one of the ships is Captain John Smith, below decks, while initially sentenced to death by hanging for his mutinous remarks, once ashore, Smith is pardoned by Captain Christopher Newport, the leader of the expedition. While the prospects for the settlement are initially bright, disease, poor discipline, supply shortages, Smith takes a small group of men upriver to seek trade while Newport returns to England for supplies. While on this mission, Smith is captured by a group of Native Americans, after being questioned, the captain is nearly executed. He is spared when Pocahontas intervenes and saves his life, living among the Native Americans as a prisoner for an extended period, Smith is treated well and earns the friendship and respect of the tribe. Coming to admire this new way of life, he falls deeply in love with Pocahontas and she is intrigued by the Englishman and his ways. The chief returns Smith to Jamestown with the understanding that the English are to leave the following spring, upon his return, Smith encounters the settlement in turmoil. Pressed into accepting the governorship, he finds the peace he had with the Natives replaced by privation, death, Smith wishes to return to his love but dismisses such action. He thinks of his time among the Native Americans as a dream from which he has awoken and their numbers dwindle throughout the brutal winter, and the settlers are saved only when Pocahontas and a rescue party arrive with food, clothing, and supplies. As spring arrives, Powhatan realizes that the English do not intend to leave, discovering his daughters actions, he orders an attack on Jamestown and exiles Pocahontas. Repulsing the attack, the settlers learn of Pocahontas banishment from her own homeland and they organize a trade so that the young woman can be taken captive and used as leverage to avoid further assaults. When Smith opposes the plan, he is removed as governor, after Pocahontas is brought to Jamestown, she and Smith renew their love affair. The return of Captain Newport adds complications, Newport tells Smith of an offer from the king to lead his own expedition to find passage to the East Indies. Torn between his love and the promise of his career, the captain decides to return to England, before he departs, he leaves instructions with another settler. He later tells Pocahontas that Smith has died in the crossing, devastated, Pocahontas sinks into depression and still mourns the death of her dear, good friend. Continuing to live in Jamestown, she is comforted by a new settler

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Miami Vice (film)
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Miami Vice is a 2006 American action crime thriller film about two MDPD detectives, Crockett and Tubbs, who go undercover to fight drug trafficking operations. The film, written, directed, and produced by Michael Mann, is an adaptation of the 1980s TV series of the same name, on which Mann was an executive producer. The film stars Jamie Foxx as Tubbs and Colin Farrell as Crockett, as well as Gong Li, Justin Theroux, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds, and Barry Shabaka Henley as Castillo. Stevens reveals that hes leaving town, and, believing his wife Leonetta to be in immediate danger, Crockett learns that Stevens was working as an informant for the FBI but has been compromised. Crockett and Tubbs quickly contact FBI Special Agent in Charge John Fujima, tracking down Stevens through a vehicle transponder and aerial surveillance, Crockett and Tubbs stop him along I-95. Stevens reveals that a Colombian cartel had become aware that Russian undercovers were working with the FBI, Rico, learning of Leonettas death by telephone call, tells Alonzo that he doesnt have to go home. Hearing this, the grief-stricken Stevens commits suicide by walking in front of a semi truck. En route to the scene, Sonny and Rico receive a call from Lt. Martin Castillo and are instructed to stay away. He tells them to him downtown, where they are introduced in person to John Fujima. Crockett and Tubbs berate Fujima for the committed and inquire as to why the MDPD wasnt involved. Fujima reveals that the Colombian group is highly sophisticated and run by José Yero and they then use their Miami informant contacts to set up a meet and greet with the cartel. Posing as drug smugglers, Sonny and Rico offer their services to Yero, after a high tension meeting they pass screening and are introduced to Arcangel de Jesus Montoya, South Floridas drug trafficking kingpin. In the course of their investigation, Crockett and Tubbs learn that the cartel is using the Aryan Brotherhood to distribute drugs, Crockett and Montoyas financial adviser and lover Isabella begin a secret romance and Tubbs begins to fear for the teams safety. Those fears are realized as Trudy, the units intelligence agent and Ricos girlfriend, is kidnapped by the Aryan Brotherhood by Yeros order. The Aryan Brotherhood demand for Crockett and Tubbs to deliver the cartels load directly to them, soon afterwards, Yero reveals Isabellas betrayal to Montoya and captures her. In the showdown, Crockett and Tubbs face off against Yero, his men, during the firefight, Crockett begins to call in backup. When Isabella sees his police shield and radio, she realizes hes a cop. Betrayed, she demands that Crockett tell her who he really is, Tubbs guns down Yero as he attempts to shoot his way to safety

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John Fante
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John Fante was an Italian-American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust about the life of a writer, Arturo Bandini. It is widely considered the great Los Angeles novel and is one in a series of four novels, a movie of the same name was made in 2006, starring Colin Farrell. Fante published five novels, one novella, and a story collection. Additional works, including two novels, two novellas, and two story collections, were published posthumously. His screen credits include, most notably, Full of Life, based on his 1952 novel by that name, Jeanne Eagels, and the 1962 films Walk on the Wild Side and The Reluctant Saint. Fante was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1909, to his father, Nicola Fante from Torricella Peligna and he attended various Catholic schools in Boulder, Colorado, before briefly enrolling at the University of Colorado. He dropped out of college in 1929 and moved to Southern California to focus on his writing and his son Dan Fante was an author and playwright. Diabetes cost him his eyesight and led to the amputation of both legs, if you transcribe this manuscript in type Ill be glad to buy it. By far, his most popular novel is the semi-autobiographical Ask the Dust, Fantes use of Bandini as his alter ego can be compared to Charles Bukowskis character, Henry Chinaski. Bukowski himself was influenced by Fante. Other novels include Full of Life, The Brotherhood of the Grape, two novellas, My Dog Stupid and The Orgy, were published in 1986 under the title West of Rome. His short story collection, Dago Red, was published in 1940. Recurring themes in Fantes work are poverty, Catholicism, family life, Italian-American identity, sports, Ask the Dust has been referred to over the years as a monumental Southern California/Los Angeles novel by a host of reputable sources. More than sixty years after it was published, Ask the Dust appeared for several weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers List. Fantes clear voice, vivid characters, shoot-from-the-hip style, and painful, emotional honesty blended with humor, most of his novels and stories take place either in Colorado or California. Many of his novels and short stories also feature or focus on fictional incarnations of Fantes father, Nick Fante, as a cantankerous wine tippling, cigar stub-smoking bricklayer. He also co-wrote Walk on the Wild Side, which stars Jane Fonda in her credited film role

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Ask the Dust (film)
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Ask the Dust is a 2006 American-German film based on the book Ask the Dust by John Fante. The film was written and directed by Robert Towne and remains, as of 2015, tom Cruise served as one of the films producers. The film was released on a basis on March 17,2006 and was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival. It was filmed almost entirely in South Africa with the use of stages to portray Los Angeles, the story is set during the Great Depression, specifically around the time of the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. Farrells character is portrayed as a writer who comes to Los Angeless Bunker Hill area to start his writing career. Though he falls in love with Camilla, he not marry her. Later, Camilla is infected by tuberculosis and leaves Arturo without informing him, when Arturo finds her, she is about to die and he promises to marry her, but Camilla dies and Arturo writes a novel dedicated to Camilla. Arturo writes a dedication in one of his books to her, colin Farrell as Arturo Bandini Salma Hayek as Camilla Lopez Donald Sutherland as Hellfrick Eileen Atkins as Mrs. The rights to the novel belonged to Mel Brooks, though he let them lapse. Towne met Fante in the 1970s and this meeting led to his interest in the project. Despite finishing the script in the early 1990s, he couldnt find financial backing from a studio, during this time, Farrells role was originally set to be played by Johnny Depp but he dropped out. Later Val Kilmer accepted the role and also dropped out, another delay was Hayek initially rejecting the role to avoid being typecast as a Mexican immigrant. She accepted the role eight years later, the film received negative to mixed reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 35% of critics gave the positive reviews. Metacritic reported the film had a score of 58 out of 100. Ask the Dust at the Internet Movie Database Ask the Dust at Rotten Tomatoes Ask the Dust at Metacritic Ask the Dust at Box Office Mojo Ask the Dust at AllMovie

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Woody Allen
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Heywood Woody Allen is an American actor, writer, director, comedian, playwright, and musician whose career spans more than six decades. He worked as a writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television. In the early 1960s, Allen began performing as a stand-up comedian, as a comedian, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen in fourth place on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians and he is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s. Allen often stars in his films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup, some of the best-known of his over 40 films are Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Hannah and Her Sisters. In 2007 he said Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, critic Roger Ebert described Allen as a treasure of the cinema. Allen won four Academy Awards, three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director and he also won nine British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. His screenplay for Annie Hall was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the 101 Funniest Screenplays, in 2011, PBS televised the film biography Woody Allen, A Documentary on the American Masters TV series. Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg in Brooklyn, New York and he and his sister, Letty, were raised in Midwood, Brooklyn. He is the son of Nettie, a bookkeeper at her familys delicatessen, and Martin Konigsberg and his family was Jewish, his grandparents immigrated from Russia and Austria, and spoke Yiddish, Hebrew, and German. His parents were born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His childhood was not particularly happy, his parents did not get along, Allen spoke German quite a bit in his early years. He would later joke that when he was young he was sent to inter-faith summer camps. While attending Hebrew school for eight years, he went to Public School 99 and to Midwood High School, at that time, he lived in an apartment at 968 East 14th Street. Unlike his comic persona, he was interested in baseball than school. He impressed students with his talent at card and magic tricks. To raise money, he wrote jokes for agent David O. Alber, at the age of 17, he legally changed his name to Heywood Allen and later began to call himself Woody Allen. According to Allen, his first published joke read, Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O. P. S and he was then earning more than both parents combined

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Cassandra's Dream
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Cassandras Dream is a 2007 dramatic thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen. Filmed in the United Kingdom, it was released in 2007 in Europe and it was developed as a British-French-American co-production. The film was premiered in secret at Avilés, Spain on June 18,2007 and it was officially premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 2,2007 and was already in theaters in Spain by November 3. The film had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11,2007, the brothers buy a sailboat at an oddly low price, despite its near pristine condition. They name it Cassandras Dream, after a greyhound that won Terry the money to buy the boat, knowing nothing of Greek mythology, they are unaware of the ominous antecedents of this name—the ancient prophetess Cassandra, whose prophecies of doom went unheeded by those around her. While driving home from a sailing in a borrowed car, Ian crosses paths with beautiful actress Angela Stark. Terry has an addiction that sinks him deeper in debt. Ian wishes to invest in hotels in California to finance a new life with Angela, to overcome their financial issues, they ask Howard for help. He agrees to them, but asks for a favor in return. Howard faces imprisonment for unspecified crimes and his future is threatened by Martin Burns, Howard asks his nephews to get rid of Burns, and in return he will reward them financially. After initial reluctance, the brothers agree and they make two zip guns, untraceable and easily destroyed. Lying in wait in Burns home, their plan is foiled when Burns arrives with a woman and their resolve shaken, they leave and agree to commit the murder the next day. The next day, they succeed in carrying out the murder and later destroy the guns, Ian is content to move on as if nothing happened, but Terry is consumed by guilt and begins abusing alcohol and other drugs. His behavior frightens his fiancée, who tells Ian about the situation, after Terry confides that he wants to turn himself in to the police, Ian goes to Howard for advice. They agree there is no alternative but to get rid of Terry, Ian plans to poison Terry during an outing on the boat. Ian cant bring himself to kill his own brother, and attacks him in a fit of rage, in the chaos, Terry knocks Ian down the steps into the cabin, killing him. The boat is discovered adrift by the police, and the audience learns that Terry snapped and drowned himself after killing his brother. The last shot is of Cassandras Dream, still in beautiful condition despite the tragedies it set in motion, the score was composed by Philip Glass

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Martin McDonagh
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Martin McDonagh is a playwright, screenwriter and film director, born and brought up in London to Irish parents. He has been described as one of the most important living playwrights in Ireland, McDonagh was born in Camberwell, London to Irish parents. His mother and his father moved back to Galway, leaving McDonagh. Separated into two trilogies, McDonaghs first six plays are located in and around County Galway, where he spent his holidays as a child. The first is set in Leenane, a village on the west coast of Ireland. McDonaghs first non-Irish play The Pillowman is set in a totalitarian state and premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 2003. A Behanding in Spokane is McDonaghs first play that is set in the United States, lead actor Christopher Walken was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as a killer looking for the hand he lost in his youth. McDonagh also penned two prize-winning radio plays, one of which is The Tale of the Wolf and the Woodcutter, in February 2010, an announcement revealed that McDonagh was working on a new stage musical with composer Tom Waits and director Robert Wilson. The play was received on its opening night in Galway in 1996 and was then produced Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company in 1998. The play transferred to Broadway in April 1998 and received a Tony Award for Best Play nomination, a Skull in Connemara A Connemara man is employed to exhume skeletons in an overcrowded graveyard and he encounters the wife whom he was once accused of killing. The play premiered in 1997 at Town Hall Theatre, Galway, the play was presented at the Royal Court Theatre, and made its US premiere at the A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle, Washington in July to August 2000. The play ran Off-Broadway in January to May 2001 at the Gramercy Theatre, the Lonesome West Two brothers bicker in the aftermath of the supposedly accidental fatal shooting of their father. The play ran on Broadway in 1999 and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play in 1999, the Cripple of Inishmaan A dark comedy in which a crippled teenager schemes to attain a role in Man of Aran. The play opened in 1997 at the Royal National Theatre in London and it opened in April 1998 Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, with Ruaidhri Conroy in the title role on both occasions. Also in 1998, Frederick Koehler played the role in the Geffen Playhouse production in Los Angeles. In December 2008, The Cripple of Inishmaan was produced Off-Broadway by the Atlantic Theater Company, in conjunction with The Druid Theatre Company of Galway, Ireland. The Lieutenant of Inishmore A dark comedy in which the leader of an INLA splinter group discovers that his best friend. The play was produced Off-Broadway in February 2006 by the Atlantic Theater Company and it transferred to Broadway in May 2006 and received a 2006 Tony Award nomination for Best Play

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In Bruges
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In Bruges is a 2008 British-American black comedy crime film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two Irish hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their boss, the film takes place and was filmed in the Belgian city of Bruges. In Bruges was the opening film of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. The film garnered a cult status for its humour and dialogues. The film earned Farrell the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, McDonagh won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Carrying out orders to execute a priest, rookie hitman Ray also accidentally kills a young boy and he and his mentor Ken are sent to Bruges, where they are to await further instructions, by their employer Harry. Ken finds the city charming and quaint, while Ray has nothing and they chance upon a film shoot involving a dwarf actor, which amuses Ray. Ray approaches Chloë, a drug dealer moonlighting as a production assistant. He takes her to a restaurant, where he gets into an argument with a Canadian couple, Chloë takes Ray to her apartment, but her ex-boyfriend Eirik appears and threatens Ray with a handgun. Ray disarms him and fires the gun, which is loaded with blanks, in his face, Chloë admits that she and Eirik rob tourists, but insists she told Eirik that Ray was not a target. Ray, Ken and Chloë spend a night with the dwarf actor, Jimmy. Harry calls Ken and orders him to kill Ray, on the principle that killing a child—even accidentally—is unforgivable, with a handgun supplied by Harrys local contact Yuri, Ken tracks Ray to a park and reluctantly prepares to kill him. However, Ray, distraught at his killing of the boy, seeing this, Ken stops Ray, informs him of Harrys order, and tells him to leave Bruges to make a new start elsewhere. Ken reports back to Harry, who sets out for Bruges. He picks up a gun at Yuris, and Eirik, Yuris son, on the train, Ray is identified by the Canadian couple he assaulted in the restaurant and is escorted back to Bruges. Chloë bails him out and the two share a drink on the market square beneath Brugess belfry, Ken and Harry meet for a drink nearby, then climb to the top of the carillon tower, where Ken argues that Ray deserves a chance at redemption. Seeing Ray at the square, Eirik climbs the tower to inform Harry, Ken attempts to stop Harry, but Harry shoots him. He drags himself back to the top of the tower and jumps, Ray rushes to Kens mangled body and learns of Harrys arrival

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Black comedy
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Black comedy or dark comedy is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo. Literary critics have associated black comedy and black humor with authors as early as the ancient Greeks with Aristophanes, Black comedy corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor. The term black humor was coined by the Surrealist theorist André Breton in 1935 while interpreting the writings of Jonathan Swift. Bretons preference was to some of Swifts writings as a subgenre of comedy and satire in which laughter arises from cynicism and skepticism. Scholars have associated black humor with authors as early as the ancient Greeks with Aristophanes, Breton coined the term for his book Anthology of Black Humor, in which he credited Jonathan Swift as the originator of black humor and gallows humor, and included excerpts from 45 other writers. This victims suffering is trivialized, which leads to sympathizing with the victimizer, as found in the social commentary. Black humor is also related to that of the grotesque genre. Breton identified Swift as the originator of black humor and gallows humor, particularly in his pieces Directions to Servants, A Modest Proposal, A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick, the terms black comedy or dark comedy have been later derived as alternatives to Bretons term. Bruce Jay Friedman, in his anthology entitled Black Humor, imported the concept of comedy to the United States. He labeled many different authors and works with the idea, arguing that they shared the literary genre. The Friedman label came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, early American writers who employed black humor were Nathanael West and Vladimir Nabokov. In 1965 a mass-market paperback titled Black Humor, was released and this was one of the first American anthologies devoted to the conception of black humor as a literary genre, the publication also sparked nationwide interest in black humor. Among the writers labeled as black humorists by journalists and literary critics are Roald Dahl, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Warren Zevon, John Barth, Joseph Heller, popular themes of the genre include violence, discrimination, disease, sexuality, religion and barbarism. Comedians, like Lenny Bruce, that since the late 1950s have been labeled for using sick comedy by mainstream journalists, have also labeled with black comedy. By contrast, blue comedy focuses more on crude topics such as nudity, sex, in obscene humor, much of the humorous element comes from shock and revulsion, while black comedy might include an element of irony, or even fatalism. For example, the black comedy self-mutilation appears in the English novel Tristram Shandy. Tristram, five years old at the time, starts to urinate out of a window for lack of a chamber pot. The sash falls and circumcises him, his family reacts with both chaotic action and philosophic digression, cringe comedy Comedy horror Macabre Off-color humor

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Horrible Bosses
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Horrible Bosses is a 2011 American black comedy film directed by Seth Gordon, written by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, based on a story by Markowitz. It stars Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, and Jamie Foxx. The plot follows three friends, played by Bateman, Day, and Sudeikis, who decide to murder their respective overbearing, abusive bosses, portrayed by Spacey, Aniston and Farrell. Markowitzs script was bought by New Line Cinema in 2005 and the spent six years in various states of pre-production. By 2010, Goldstein and Daley had rewritten the script, the film premiered in Los Angeles on June 30,2011, and received a wide release on July 8,2011. The film grossed over $209 million worldwide during its theatrical run, the film opened to positive critical reception, with several critics praising the ensemble cast, with each lead being singled out for their performances across reviews. The plot received a mixed response, some reviewers felt that its dark, humorous premise was explored well, while others felt the jokes were racist, homophobic. A sequel, Horrible Bosses 2, was released on November 26,2014, Nick Hendricks and Dale Arbus are friends who despise their bosses. Nick works at a firm for the sadistic David Harken. Dale is a dental assistant being sexually harassed by his boss, Dr. Julia Harris, at night, over drinks, Kurt jokingly suggests that their lives would be happier if their bosses were no longer around. Initially hesitant, they agree to kill their employers. In search of a hitman, the trio meet Dean Motherfuckah Jones, Jones suggests that Dale, Kurt and Nick kill each others bosses to hide their motive while making the deaths look like accidents. The three reconnoiter Bobbys house, and Kurt steals Bobbys phone and they next go to Harkens house, where Kurt and Nick go inside while Dale waits in the car. Harken returns home and confronts Dale for littering, but then has an attack from the peanut butter on the litter. Dale saves Harken by stabbing him with an EpiPen, Nick and Kurt think Dale is stabbing Harken to death and flee, with Kurt accidentally dropping Bobbys phone in Harkens bedroom. The next night, Kurt watches Julias home, but she seduces and has sex with him, Nick and Dale reluctantly wait outside Bobbys and Harkens houses, respectively, to commit the murders, despite neither of them wanting to. Harken discovers Bobbys cellphone in his bedroom and uses it to find his address and he drives over and kills Bobby, with Nick as a secret witness. Nick flees at high speed, setting off a traffic camera, the trio meet to discuss their reservations about continuing with their plan

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Fright Night (2011 film)
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Fright Night is a 2011 American comedy horror film directed by Craig Gillespie, and produced by Michael De Luca and Alison Rosenzweig. A remake of Tom Hollands Fright Night, the screenplay was adapted by Marti Noxon. The plot follows a boy who discovers that his neighbor is actually a vampire. The film held its premiere at The O2 in London on August 14,2011. It was produced by DreamWorks Pictures and Reliance Entertainment, and was released in the United States by Touchstone Pictures on August 19,2011 in Real D 3D, upon its release, Fright Night grossed $41 million against a production budget of $30 million. It received generally positive reviews, with praising its humor. Charley Brewster is a living in a suburb of Las Vegas, Nevada. Charleys old best friend, Edward Evil Ed Lee, informs him that many students have gone missing, including their other childhood friend, when Charley goes home after school, his mother, Jane, introduces him to Jerry Dandrige, their new neighbor. Fed-up and angry with Ed after he claims that Jerry is a vampire, Charley tells him hes crazy. On his way home, Ed is confronted by Jerry, who claims that he has been watching Ed and has been aware of Ed watching him. Jerry soon chases Ed into a pool and convinces him into believing that his life would be much better if he was a vampire. Ed succumbs and willingly allows Jerry to bite him, as Jerry begins to attack more people throughout the neighborhood, Charley sneaks into Jerrys house and finds out that he keeps his victims in secret rooms. Charley goes to Las Vegas magician Peter Vincent, an expert on vampires. Peter, however, doesnt take him seriously and kicks him out, Jerry comes to Charleys house and sets fire to it. Charley, Jane, and his girlfriend, Amy Peterson, flee through the desert in their minivan, Jerry catches up with them, but is wounded by Jane with a real estate sign stake. Jane is admitted to a hospital, where Charley is summoned by Peter, upon arriving at Peters penthouse Ed turns up. By now Ed has been transformed into a vampire and he aids Jerry in attacking Charley, Amy. As they fight, Ed lets all of his out on his opponent

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Sci-fi
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Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a literature of ideas. Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying science fiction is what we point to when we say it, a definition echoed by author Mark C. Glassy, who argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography, you do not know what it is, in 1970 or 1971William Atheling Jr. According to science fiction writer Robert A, rod Serlings definition is fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. Science fiction elements include, A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, a spatial setting or scenes in outer space, on other worlds, or on subterranean earth. Characters that include aliens, mutants, androids, or humanoid robots, futuristic or plausible technology such as ray guns, teleportation machines, and humanoid computers. Scientific principles that are new or that contradict accepted physical laws, for time travel, wormholes. New and different political or social systems, e. g. utopian, dystopian, post-scarcity, paranormal abilities such as mind control, telepathy, telekinesis Other universes or dimensions and travel between them. A product of the budding Age of Reason and the development of science itself. Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan considered Keplers work the first science fiction story and it depicts a journey to the Moon and how the Earths motion is seen from there. Later, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon, more examples appeared throughout the 19th century. Wells The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry and it is a seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth. In the late 19th century, the scientific romance was used in Britain to describe much of this fiction. This produced additional offshoots, such as the 1884 novella Flatland, the term would continue to be used into the early 20th century for writers such as Olaf Stapledon. In the early 20th century, pulp magazines helped develop a new generation of mainly American SF writers, influenced by Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine. In 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars, the first of his series of Barsoom novels, situated on Mars

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Total Recall (2012 film)
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Total Recall is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Len Wiseman. The screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback was based on the 1990 film of the same name, the film stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, Bokeem Woodbine, John Cho, and Bill Nighy. Unlike the first film and the story, the plot takes place on Earth not a trip to Mars and has more political overtones. The film blends American and Asian influences, notably in the settings, the film was first announced in 2009 and was released in North America on August 3,2012, grossing over $198 million worldwide. The film received mixed reviews from critics. It received praise for its action sequences and acting but the lack of humor, emotional subtlety. At the end of the 21st century, Earth is devastated by chemical warfare, what little habitable land remains is divided into two territories, the United Federation of Britain and the Colony. Many residents of the Colony travel to the UFB to work in factories via “The Fall, a Resistance operating in the UFB, which the UFB views as a terrorist movement, seeks to improve life in the Colony. Colony citizen Douglas Quaid has been having dreams of being a secret agent, tired of his factory job building police robots with friend Harry, he visits Rekall, a virtual entertainment company that implants artificial memories. Among the choices Rekall salesman Bob McClane offers Quaid are the memories of a secret agent, an emblem of Rekall is stamped onto his arm. Just as Quaid is starting to be implanted, McClane discovers that he already has real memories of being a covert operative, as McClane starts to question Quaid about the memories, UFB police officers burst in, killing the Rekall crew and attempting to arrest Quaid. Quaid instinctively reacts and kills the officers before escaping, after Quaid escapes, Charles Hammond, a “friend” Quaid does not recognize, contacts him and directs him to a safe-deposit box numbered 10549 at First Bank. Quaid finds a message from his former self with the address of a UFB apartment. While being pursued by Lori and other human and robot police, Quaid meets Melina, at the apartment Quaid finds another recording, revealing that his name is actually Carl Hauser, an agent working for UFB Chancellor Vilos Cohaagen. After defecting to the Resistance, Hauser was captured by the UFB, the recording reveals that Cohaagen will use robots to invade the Colony so the UFB will have more living space. Hauser, however, has seen a “kill code” that would disable the robots, the code can be recovered from his memory by Resistance leader Matthias. The police surround the apartment building and Harry appears and he tries to convince Quaid that he is still in a Rekall-induced dream and that killing Melina is the only way out. Quaid is conflicted, but notices a tear on Melina’s cheek, Lori pursues the pair inside the buildings elevators, but fails to capture them

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Seven Psychopaths
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Seven Psychopaths is a 2012 crime black comedy film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. It stars Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, and Christopher Walken, with Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko, the film marks the second collaboration between McDonagh, Farrell, and Ivanek, following 2008s In Bruges. The film was a co-production of the United States and the United Kingdom, Seven Psychopaths had its world première on 7 September 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was released in the United States and Canada on 12 October 2012, Marty Faranan is a struggling writer who dreams of finishing his screenplay, Seven Psychopaths. Martys best friend, Billy, makes a living by kidnapping dogs, Billys partner-in-crime is Hans Kieslowski, a religious man with a cancer-stricken wife, Myra. Marty writes a story for another psychopath, the Quaker, who stalks his daughters killer for decades, driving the killer to suicide, Billy suggests Marty use the Jack of Diamonds killer, perpetrator of a recent double murder, as one of the seven psychopaths in his script. Billy places an advertisement in the newspaper inviting psychopaths to call, a man named Zachariah Rigby approaches Marty and shares his story, with the condition that the movie includes a message to his partner in crime. Billy and Hans steal a Shih Tzu named Bonny, unaware that it is the pet of Charlie Costello. Charlies thugs, led by Paulo, discover Hans connection to the kidnapping and they threaten to kill Marty and Hans, but the Jack of Diamonds killer arrives and shoots the thugs. Charlie traces Myra to the ward and kills her after she refuses to tell him anything. Billy goes to Costellos house to meet his girlfriend, Angela, after Billy reveals to her that he kidnapped Bonny, she calls Charlie to tell him. Billy, after finding out that Charlie killed Myra, shoots Angela in retaliation, Charlie arrives at Billys address and discovers many packs of playing cards with the jack of diamonds missing, and realizes Billy is the Jack of Diamonds killer. Marty, Billy and Hans leave the city with Bonny, Hans reveals that he was the Quaker and survived his attempted suicide. Marty unknowingly wrote his story after hearing it from a drunken Billy, the trio drive into the desert and set up camp. Billy suggests Seven Psychopaths end with a shootout between the psychopaths and Charlies forces. Marty and Hans see a headline saying that Billy is wanted in connection with the Jack of Diamonds killings, Marty confronts Billy, who reveals that he assumed the Jack of Diamonds persona to give Marty inspiration. Disillusioned, Marty tells Billy they must go home, meanwhile, Hans has a vision of Myra and talks to her. She tells him that she is in a place, leading Hans to question his belief in the afterlife

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Dead Man Down
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Dead Man Down is an 2013 American neo-noir crime thriller film written by J. H. Wyman and directed by Danish director Niels Arden Oplev. The film stars Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper, and Terrence Howard, Dead Man Down was Oplevs first film since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, also starring Rapace and scored by Jacob Groth. Victor has infiltrated a criminal empire run by ruthless kingpin Alphonse Hoyt and his objective is to make Alphonse pay for the murder of his wife and young daughter two years earlier. Victor intends to revenge on Alphonse through physical and psychological torture before finally killing him. Victor watches and is watched by Beatrice, a young woman who lives in the apartment across from his. Beatrice begins to contact Victor and show interest in him, on their first date, Beatrice reveals her true motivation, she has a video of Victor killing a man, and will go to the police unless Victor kills the drunk driver who disfigured her face. Meanwhile, Alphonse is receiving threats against his life by Victor, during a shoot-out with Jamaicans whom he believes responsible for the threats, Victor saves his life and thus gains his trust. As the threats intensify, a man within Alphonses crew and a friend of Victors, Darcy, Victor has also kidnapped the brother of Albanian kingpin Ilir Brozi, who was involved in helping Alphonse dispose of Victors family. Victor plans to pool the Albanians and Alphonses men together so he can eliminate them all at once, Victor stages a deliberately failed sniper attack on Alphonse from a rooftop in continuing his plans of torture. However, he nearly is caught in the process and manages to escape thanks to Beatrice, ilirs brother, who was kidnapped by Victor, has been held tied up and blindfolded in an abandoned ship. Beatrice is given the card with the video to mail to Ilir in order to make it seem like Alphonses crew was responsible for his brothers kidnapping. Alphonse, now knowing the threats are coming from someone within his crew, becomes suspicious, Victor later notifies Beatrice that he didnt kill the drunk driver so that they can spend more time together, knowing the psychological effect that the murder would have had on her. Victor sets up a trap for the Albanians and Alphonse, at that moment, Darcy, who has found Victors true intentions while investigating his apartment, subdues Beatrice and informs Victor she is being held captive at Alphonses house. As Alphonse and the Albanians gather in the house, Victor crashes into the house with his truck, Victor spares Darcys life in the ensuing gunfight and makes his way to the top floor where Beatrice is held by Alphonse and Ilir. Beatrice escapes their watch while they are distracted by Victors successful advance, as Ilir hears the video, he turns his gun on Alphonse who he believes has betrayed him. They both end up shooting each other dead, as Victor escapes with Beatrice, Darcy confronts them with his gun raised. When asked if he spared Darcy because he has a wife and child, Victor replies, No, Darcy also lowers his gun and allows the two to leave. Victor and Beatrice travel home on a subway and share a kiss, metacritic gives the film a score of 39/100, based on reviews from 24 critics, indicating generally unfavorable reviews

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Saving Mr. Banks
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Saving Mr. Banks is a 2013 period drama film directed by John Lee Hancock from a screenplay written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith. The films subject matter piqued Disneys interest, leading the studio to acquire the screenplay and produce the film. Saving Mr. Banks premiered at the London Film Festival on October 20,2013, upon release, the film received positive reviews, with praise directed towards the acting, screenplay, and musical score. The film was commercially successful, grossing $118 million at the worldwide box office. In 1961, the financially strapped author Pamela P. L. Travers reluctantly travels from her home in London to Los Angeles to work with Walt Disney at the urging of her agent, Diarmuid Russell. Disney has pursued the rights to her Mary Poppins stories for twenty years. Travers has steadfastly resisted Disneys efforts because she fears what he would do to her character, however, she has not written anything in a while and her book royalties have dwindled to nothing, so she risks losing her house. Still, Russell has to remind her that Disney has agreed to two major stipulations—no animation and unprecedented script approval—before she agrees to go, Travers difficult childhood in Allora, Queensland, Australia, is depicted through flashbacks, and is the inspiration for much of Mary Poppins. Goff died at an age from tuberculosis when Travers was seven years old. In Los Angeles, Travers is irritated by what she perceives as the citys unreality, at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Travers meets the creative team that are developing Mary Poppins for the screen, screenwriter Don DaGradi, and music composers Richard and Robert Sherman. She finds their presumptions and casual manners highly improper, a view she also holds of the jocular Disney, Travers working relationship with Disney and his team is difficult from the outset, with her insistence that Mary Poppins is the enemy of sentiment and whimsy. Disney and his people are puzzled by Travers disdain for fantasy, given the nature of the Mary Poppins story, as well as Travers own rich imagination. She particularly objects to how the character George Banks, the father of the children in Mary Poppins charge, is depicted. Gradually, they grasp how deeply personal the Mary Poppins stories are to her, the team realize Travers has valid criticisms and make changes, though she becomes increasingly disengaged as painful childhood memories resurface. Disney learns that Travers is actually her pen name, taken from her fathers given name and her real name is Helen Goff, and shes actually Australian, not British. This gives Disney new insight into Travers, and he follows her to London, arriving unexpectedly at her door, Disney tells her that he also had a less-than-ideal childhood, but stresses the healing value of his art. He urges Travers to not let deeply-rooted past disappointments dictate the present, Travers relents and grants Disney the film rights. Three years later, in 1964, Mary Poppins is to have its premiere at Graumans Chinese Theatre in Hollywood

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Winter's Tale (film)
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Winters Tale is a 2014 American supernatural fantasy mystery romantic drama film and fable based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Mark Helprin. The film is produced, written and directed by Akiva Goldsman, edited by Wayne Wahrman and Tim Squyres, Winters Tale premiered at London on February 13,2014 and was theatrically released on February 14,2014 in the United States by Warner Bros. The film received negative reviews from critics and was a box office bomb. It also received a Golden Trailer nomination for Best Romance Poster, Winters Tale was released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 24,2014 by Warner Home Video. In 1895, an immigrant couple is refused entry into Manhattan because they have consumption. When their infant son is not allowed entry to the country without them, in 1916, the baby boy has grown up to become Peter Lake, a thief raised by a supernatural demon posing as the gangster Pearly Soames. Peter is marked for death when he decides to leave Pearlys gang, in a confrontation, he is rescued by a mysterious white horse, his guardian angel. Although Peter hopes to move to Florida and come back in the summer, the mansion is the home where Beverly Penn lives, a young woman dying of consumption, whose fever is so high she sleeps outside in a tent in the winter cold. While her publisher father Isaac and younger sister Willa are not home, when Peter assures her that he no longer wishes to commit robbery, Beverly offers to make him a cup of tea. They tell each other their stories and fall in love, Pearly orders his men to Beverly’s home, believing that saving her is Peters miracle and spiritual destiny and that he can destroy Peter by preventing it. Peter rescues Beverly from being knifed by Pearly, and they escape to the Lake of the Coheeries, where Pearly, Peter meets Beverly’s family at their summer home and wins their respect. While on a walk, Beverly explains to Peter that everyone is born with a miracle inside, Pearly asks the devil, Lucifer, for access to the lake home, but his request is denied. Instead, Pearly, who refers to himself as a Knight among Lucifers angels, calls in a debt owed to him by another of Lucifer’s angels, at a ball, the angel disguised as a waiter poisons Beverlys drink. When Peter and Beverly return home from the ball, Peter watches the shadows she casts upon the sides of her tent, joins her. Her pulse races faster than ever due to the poison in her heart, after the funeral, when Peter and his mysterious white Horse return to the city, Pearly and his men surround them on the Brooklyn Bridge. To save its life, Peter orders his mysterious winged Horse to fly away and Pearly gives Peter five vicious head-butts, Peter miraculously survives, but wanders around the city with amnesia for a century, drawing chalk art of a red-headed girl on the pavements. In 2014, the 119 year-old, but physically undiminished Peter bumps into a girl named Abby and meets her mother. He rediscovers the brass plate of the City of Justice

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Winter's Tale (novel)
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Winters Tale is a 1983 novel by Mark Helprin. It takes place in a mythic New York City, markedly different from reality, the novel was adapted into a feature film by Akiva Goldsman. Peter Lake is the character of Winters Tale. A child of an immigrant couple denied admission at Ellis Island and he is found in the reeds and adopted by the Baymen of the Bayonne Marsh, who send him off to Manhattan when he comes of age. There he first becomes a mechanic and then is forced to become a burglar in a called the Short Tails. He soon makes an enemy of their leader, Pearly Soames. Early one winter morning Peter is on the brink of being captured and killed by the gang when he is rescued by a white horse. While attempting to rob a house, Peter Lake meets and falls in love with Beverly Penn, Beverly is eccentric, free spirited, and enigmatic. This captivates Peter initially, but deeper nature is revealed with her fatal illness from consumption. Beverly never disappears from Peters life, protecting him until the very end and his love for dying Beverly causes him to become obsessed with justice. In yet another escape from Pearlys men, both Peter Lake and the white horse crash into a mysterious, recurring cloud wall, disappearing in it for decades. When Peter Lake emerges, he no longer remembers who he is and is no longer of this world. One night, in a dream or a vision, he is carried on a tour of all the graves of the world, in the apocalyptic chaos of burning New York, he acquires astonishing powers. Peter Lake refers to himself, earlier in his life, as Grand Central Pete, in reality, there was a well-known confidence man in the late 19th century known by this name. Athansor, the horse, acts as a guardian angel of Peter Lake. Able to fly and possessing extraordinary endurance, the horse appears to be an angelic being. Before the end, Peter Lake releases him to let him go to heaven. The white horse appears on the first pages of the book, the name of the horse is unknown to Peter Lake, but when Peter Lake visits Bayonne Marsh, the Baymen recognise the horse as Athansor, part of their oral lore

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Mark Helprin
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While Helprins fictional works straddle a number of disparate genres and styles, he has stated that he belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend. Helprin was born in Manhattan, New York in 1947 and his father, Morris Helprin, worked in the film industry, eventually becoming president of London Films. His mother was actress Eleanor Lynn, who starred in several Broadway productions in the 1930s and 40s, in 1953 the family left New York City for the prosperous Hudson River valley suburb of Ossining, New York. He was raised on the Hudson River and was educated at the Scarborough School and he later lived in the British West Indies. Helprin holds degrees from Harvard University, and Harvards Graduate School of Arts, Helprins postgraduate study was at Princeton University and Magdalen College, Oxford, University of Oxford, 1976–77. He is Jewish-American, and he became an Israeli citizen during the late 1970s and he served in the Israeli infantry and the Israeli Air Force. Helprin is married to Lisa Helprin and they have two daughters, Alexandra and Olivia. They live on a 56-acre farm in Earlysville, Virginia, and like his father and grandfather who had farms before him, Helprin states that his literary creation always starts with something very small. I can sit down to write a story just by thinking of the first two words of a Scott Fitzgerald story, This Jonquil—its a womans name and this always gets me in the mood to write. We create nothing new—no one has ever imagined a new color—so what you are doing is revitalizing and you are remembering, then combining, altering. Artists who think theyre creating new worlds are simply creating tiny versions of this world and his inspirations include Dante, Shakespeare, Melville and Mark Twain. His first novel, published in 1977, was Refiners Fire, The Life and Adventures of Marshall Pearl, the 1983 novel Winters Tale is a sometimes fantastic tale of early 20th century life in New York City. He published A Soldier of the Great War in 1991, memoir from Antproof Case, published in 1995, includes long comic diatribes against the effects of coffee. Helprin came out with Freddy and Fredericka, a based on Prince Charles and Princess Diana. His latest, In Sunlight and In Shadow, was released in 2012, Helprin has published three books of short stories, A Dove of the East & Other Stories, Ellis Island & Other Stories, and The Pacific and Other Stories. He has written three books, all of which are illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, Swan Lake, A City in Winter. His works have translated into more than a dozen languages. Helprins writing has appeared in The New Yorker for two decades and he writes essays and a column for the Claremont Review of Books

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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States

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The Lobster
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In the films setting, single people are given 45 days to find a romantic partner or otherwise be turned into animals. It stars Colin Farrell as a man trying to find someone so he can remain human. The film is co-produced by Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France and it was selected to compete for the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize. It was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the film was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 89th Academy Awards. David discovers that his wife has left him for another man, the hotel manager reveals that single people have 45 days to find a partner, or they will be transformed into an animal, the dog accompanying him is his brother. David chooses to become a lobster, due to their life cycle, David makes acquaintances with Robert, a man with a lisp, and John, a man with a limp, who become his quasi-friends. John explains that he was injured in an attempt to reconnect with his mother, the hotel has many rules and rituals, masturbation is banned, but sexual stimulation by the hotel maid is mandatory, and guests attend dances and watch propaganda extolling advantages of partnership. Robert is caught masturbating, and the hotel manager burns his fingers in a toaster, relationships require partners to have a distinguishing trait in common. John is told a woman has arrived with a limp, residents can extend their deadline by hunting and tranquilizing single people in the forest, each captured loner earns them a day. On one such hunt, a woman with a fondness for biscuits offers David sexual favors and she tells him that if she fails to find a mate, she will kill herself by jumping from a hotel window. John then wins the affections of a woman with constant nosebleeds by purposely smashing his nose in secret and they move to the couples section to begin a month-long trial partnership. David later decides to court a notoriously cruel woman who has tranquilized more loners than anyone else and their initial conversation is interrupted by the screams of the biscuit-loving woman, who has severely injured herself jumping from a window. Although troubled by the incident, David pretends to enjoy the suffering to gain the heartless womans interest. He later joins her in a jacuzzi, and she feigns choking, the two are shifted to the couples suite. When David wakes up one morning, he finds she has kicked Davids brother to death, when David cries in response, she concludes their relationship is a lie and drags him to the hotel manager to have him punished by turning him into an animal that no one likes. However, he escapes and, with the help of a maid, tranquilizes. Escaping the hotel, David joins the loners in the woods, in contrast to the hotels rules, they forbid any romance, with mouth mutilation as punishment. The hotel maid is found to be a mole for the loners, soon after her encounter with the leader of the loners, the loners visit the city to get some supplies, where David has a close encounter with a police officer

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Harry Potter (film series)
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Harry Potter is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling. A spin-off prequel series will consist of five films, starting with Fantastic Beasts, the Fantastic Beasts films mark the beginning of a shared media franchise known as J. K. Rowlings Wizarding World. The series was produced by David Heyman, and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint. Four directors worked on the series, Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuarón, Mike Newell, the screenplays were written by Steve Kloves, with the exception of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which was written by Michael Goldenberg. Production took over ten years to complete, with the story arc following Harry Potters quest to overcome his arch-enemy Lord Voldemort. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final novel in the series, was adapted into two feature-length parts, Part 1 was released in November 2010, and Part 2 was released in July 2011. Without inflation adjustment, it is the second highest-grossing film series with $8.5 billion in worldwide receipts, late in 1997, film producer David Heymans London offices received a copy of the first book in what would become Rowlings series of seven Harry Potter novels. The book, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, was relegated to a low-priority bookshelf, consequently, Heyman, who had originally disliked the rubbish title, read the book himself. Highly impressed by Rowlings work, he began the process led to one of the most successful cinematic franchises of all time. Heymans enthusiasm led to Rowlings 1999 sale of the rights for the first four Harry Potter books to Warner Bros. for a reported £1 million. Although Steven Spielberg initially negotiated to direct the first film, he declined the offer, Spielberg wanted the adaptation to be an animated film, with American actor Haley Joel Osment to provide Harry Potters voice. Spielberg contended that, in his opinion, there was every expectation of profit in making the film and he claims that making money would have been like shooting ducks in a barrel. Its just like withdrawing a billion dollars and putting it into your personal bank accounts, petersen and Reiner both pulled out of the running in March 2000. It was then narrowed down to Columbus, Gilliam, Parker, Rowlings first choice was Terry Gilliam. Harry Potter is the kind of literary achievement that comes around once in a lifetime. Since the books have generated such a following across the world. I cant think of anyone more ideally suited for this job than Chris, Steve Kloves was selected to write the screenplay for the first film. He described adapting the book as tough since it did not lend itself to adaptation as well as the two books

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2016 fantasy film directed by David Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. A spin-off of the Harry Potter film series, it was produced and written by J. K. Rowling, in her screenwriting debut, and inspired by her book of the same name. It is the first instalment in the Fantastic Beasts series, and the overall in J. K. Rowlings Wizarding World. Principal photography began at Warner Bros, studios, Leavesden, England in August 2015 and was completed in January 2016. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them premiered in New York City on 10 November 2016 and was released worldwide on 18 November 2016 in 3D, the film received positive reviews from critics and it has grossed $812 million worldwide, making it the eighth highest-grossing film of 2016. The film was nominated for five BAFTAs, winning for Best Production Design, Rowlings Wizarding World to win an Academy Award. In 1926 the British wizard and magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives by ship to New York en route to Arizona and he encounters Mary Lou Barebone, a non-magical woman who heads the New Salem Philanthropic Society, which claims that witches and wizards are real and dangerous. As Newt listens to her speak, a Niffler escapes from his magically expanded suitcase, as he attempts to capture it, he meets No-Maj cannery worker and aspiring baker Jacob Kowalski, and they accidentally swap suitcases. Demoted Auror Tina Goldstein arrests Newt for being a wizard and takes him to the Magical Congress of the United States of America headquarters. However, as Jacobs suitcase contains only baked goods, Newt is released, at Jacobs tenement apartment, several creatures escape from Newts suitcase. After Tina and Newt find Jacob and the suitcase, Tina takes them to her apartment and introduces them to Queenie, Queenie and Jacob are mutually attracted, though American wizards are forbidden to marry or even socially interact with No-Majs. Newt extracted it from a girl who died, those afflicted rarely living past the age of ten. Newt persuades Jacob to help search for the missing creatures, after re-capturing two of the three escaped beasts, they re-enter the suitcase, which Tina takes to MACUSA. Officials arrest them, believing one of Newts beasts is responsible for killing Senator Henry Shaw Jr and they decide to destroy Newts suitcase and erase Jacobs recent memories. Director of Magical Security Percival Graves accuses Newt of conspiring with the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. Newt and Tina are sentenced to death but Queenie and Jacob rescue them. Thanks to the help of Goblin gangster Gnarlack, Tinas old informant, meanwhile, Percival Graves approaches Credence Barebone, Mary Lous adopted son, and offers to free him from his abusive mother. In exchange, he wants Credence to find an Obscurus, Graves believes it has caused the mysterious destructive incidents around the city

San Diego Comic-Con
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the

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Signs outside Hall H

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Comic-Con International: San Diego: Creator

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Comic Con crowds in 2011 as seen from a helicopter – Panorama.

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Comic-Con crowd inside the second floor of the convention center in 2011 awaiting the exhibition hall to open.

Castleknock
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Castleknock is a suburb of Dublin and a civil parish in Fingal, Ireland. It is located 8 km west of the centre of Dublin, the N3 Navan Road also serves the area. The Royal Canal and the Dublin-Sligo railway line pass through the area from east to west, the village of Castleknock is in the Dublin 15 postal area. The Dublin Suburban Rail the Western

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St Brigid's church, Castleknock (Church of Ireland)

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Castleknock Village at the junction of Castleknock Road and College Road

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Castleknock Railway Station Sunset, September 2012

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Castleknock College2012

Dublin
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Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Dublin is in the province of Leinster on Irelands east coast, the city has an urban area population of 1,345,402. The population of the Greater Dublin Area, as of 2016, was 1,904,806 people, founded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin became Irelands principal city following the Norman in

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Father Mathew Bridge, formerly Dublin Bridge, is understood to be near the ancient "Ford of the Hurdles" (Baile Átha Cliath), the original crossing point on the River Liffey.

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Dublin Castle was the fortified seat of British rule in Ireland until 1922.

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Henrietta Street, developed in the 1720s, is the earliest Georgian Street in Dublin.

Gaiety School of Acting
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The Gaiety School of Acting is an Irish drama school. It is located on Essex Street West in Temple Bar, Dublin 8, the school was founded in 1986 by actor and director Joe Dowling in response to the lack of full-time actor training in Ireland at the time. The schools runs a two year full-time Professional Actor Training course the GSA also runs many

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The Gaiety School of Acting

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The Gaiety School of Acting sign

Ballykissangel
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Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama created by Kieran Prendiville and set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community and it ran for six series, which were first broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2001

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Series title card

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Fitzgerald's, a pub in Avoca that was used as a primary exterior set in the series.

Tim Roth
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Timothy Simon Tim Roth is an English actor and director. He made his role in the 1982 television film Made in Britain. He garnered critical acclaim for his role as Myron in the 1984 film The Hit, Roth gained more attention for his performances in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Vincent & Theo and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. He l

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Roth at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International

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Roth at the Cannes film festival in 2012

The War Zone
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The War Zone is a 1999 British drama film written by Alexander Stuart, directed by Tim Roth in his directorial debut, and starring Ray Winstone, Tilda Swinton, Lara Belmont and Freddie Cunliffe. The film is based on Stuarts 1989 novel of the name and takes a blunt look at incest. 15-year-old Tom is upset after his move from London to a rural house

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Joel Schumacher
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Joel T. Schumacher is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing The Incredible Shrinking Woman, St. Elmos Fire, Batman Forever, A Time to Kill, Batman & Robin, Phone Booth, The Phantom of the Opera and The Number 23. Before he launched his career as a director, Schumacher also wrote the adaptation of The

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Schumacher in Taormina during the Taormina Film Fest in 2003, for the Italian premiere of Phone Booth.

Tigerland
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Tigerland was the name of a U. S. Army training camp during the mid-1960s to early 1970s located at Fort Polk, Louisiana as part of the U. S. Army Advanced Infantry Training Center. As often the last stop for new infantrymen on their way to Vietnam, Tigerland was established in humid, while the films setting is loosely based on Fort Polk, the film

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Phone Booth (film)
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The film received generally positive reviews from film critics and was a box office hit, grossing $97 million worldwide, against a production budget of $13 million. Critics praised Farrells performance and composer Harry Gregson-Williams score, stuart Stu Shepard is an arrogant New York City publicist who has been courting a woman named Pam behind

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S.W.A.T. (film)
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S. W. A. T. is a 2003 American action crime thriller film directed by Clark Johnson, and is based on the 1975 television series of the same name. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J and it was produced by Neal H. Moritz and released in the United States on August 8,2003. Jim Street, a former U. S. Navy SEAL and

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The Recruit
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The Recruit is a 2003 American spy thriller film, directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Al Pacino, Colin Farrell and Bridget Moynahan. It was produced by Epsilon Motion Pictures and released in North America by Touchstone Pictures on January 31,2003, receiving mixed reviews from critics and grossing $101 million worldwide. Having taken note of h

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Steven Spielberg
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Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE, OMRI is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the pioneers of the New Hollywood era. He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios, in a career spanning more than four decades, Spielbergs films have spanned many themes and genres. His other films include Jurassic Park, A. I,

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Spielberg at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival

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Steven Spielberg and Chandran Rutnam on a location in Sri Lanka during the filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

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Spielberg in March 1990

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Spielberg in 2011, at the Paris premiere of The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.

Minority Report (film)
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Minority Report is a 2002 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story of the same name by Philip K. Dick. Spielberg has characterized the story as fifty percent character and fifty percent very complicated storytelling with layers and layers of murder mystery, the films central theme is the questi

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Theatrical release poster

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Members of the cast of Minority Report. Clockwise from top left; Stormare, McDonough, Farrell, Cruise, Morton, and Von Sydow.

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At the 2010 TED conference, Minority Report's Science Advisor, John Underkoffler, demos a real life version of the "spatial operating environment" interface.

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Witwer catches the ball: having predetermined its inevitable course, he intervenes to prevent its fall upon the ground.

Bullseye (comics)
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Bullseye is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A psychopathic assassin, Bullseye uses the opportunities afforded by his line of work to exercise his homicidal tendencies and his marksmanship is uncanny, at a nearly supernatural level, but he has been known to miss moving targets. In the Daredevil liv

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Bullseye Promotional art by Mike Deodato

Daredevil (film)
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Daredevil is a 2003 American superhero film written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson. The film began development in 1997 at 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures, Johnson shot the film primarily in Downtown Los Angeles despite the Hells Kitchen, Manhattan setting of the film and comics. Rhythm and Hues Studios were hired to handle the films CGI

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Intermission (film)
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Intermission is a 2003 Irish black comedy crime film directed by John Crowley and written by Mark ORowe. The film, set in Dublin, Ireland, has shot in a documentary-like style. The film opens with a cashier being charmed by Lehiff who after flirting with the girl smashes her in the face and it quickly moves to John and Deirdre who are a recently se

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A Home at the End of the World (film)
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A Home at the End of the World is a 2004 drama film directed by Michael Mayer. The screenplay by Michael Cunningham was adapted from his 1990 novel of the same title, Jonathan, who is slowly coming out as a homosexual, initiates Bobby into adolescent mutual masturbation during their frequent sleepovers. When Alice catches them both masturbating in

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Original film poster

Oliver Stone
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William Oliver Stone is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express and he also wrote the acclaimed gangster movie Scarface. As a director, Stone achieved prominence as director/writer of the war drama Platoon, for which Stone won the Academy Award for B

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Stone with Hugo Chávez at the Venice International Film Festival, July 9, 2009 for the screening of South of the Border

Alexander (2004 film)
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Alexander is a 2004 epic historical drama film based on the life of Alexander the Great. It was directed by Oliver Stone, with Colin Farrell in the title role, the film was an original screenplay based in part on the book Alexander the Great, written in the 1970s by the University of Oxford historian Robin Lane Fox. After release, while it performe

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Terrence Malick
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Terrence Frederick Malick is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood film-making wave with the films Badlands and Days of Heaven, Malicks films have been noted for exploring themes such as individual transcendence, nature, and conflicts between reason and instinct. The stylistic ele

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Malick in 2011

The New World (2005 film)
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It is the fourth feature film written and directed by Malick. The cast includes Colin Farrell, Qorianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi, David Thewlis, the New World received many award nominations for Lubezkis cinematography, Kilchers acting, and Horners score. The work was met with an only mildly posit

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Miami Vice (film)
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Miami Vice is a 2006 American action crime thriller film about two MDPD detectives, Crockett and Tubbs, who go undercover to fight drug trafficking operations. The film, written, directed, and produced by Michael Mann, is an adaptation of the 1980s TV series of the same name, on which Mann was an executive producer. The film stars Jamie Foxx as Tub

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John Fante
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John Fante was an Italian-American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust about the life of a writer, Arturo Bandini. It is widely considered the great Los Angeles novel and is one in a series of four novels, a movie of the same name was made in 2006, starring Colin Farrell.

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John Fante

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A view of John Fante Square in downtown Los Angeles

Ask the Dust (film)
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Ask the Dust is a 2006 American-German film based on the book Ask the Dust by John Fante. The film was written and directed by Robert Towne and remains, as of 2015, tom Cruise served as one of the films producers. The film was released on a basis on March 17,2006 and was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival. It was filmed almost

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The movie poster for Ask the Dust.

Woody Allen
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Heywood Woody Allen is an American actor, writer, director, comedian, playwright, and musician whose career spans more than six decades. He worked as a writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television. In the early 1960s, Allen began performing as a stand-up comedian, as a comedian, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual

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Allen in the 1970s

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Allen as a high school senior, 1953

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Allen with the Broadway cast of Play It Again, Sam (1969).

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Allen candid from 2006

Cassandra's Dream
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Cassandras Dream is a 2007 dramatic thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen. Filmed in the United Kingdom, it was released in 2007 in Europe and it was developed as a British-French-American co-production. The film was premiered in secret at Avilés, Spain on June 18,2007 and it was officially premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Septe

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Martin McDonagh
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Martin McDonagh is a playwright, screenwriter and film director, born and brought up in London to Irish parents. He has been described as one of the most important living playwrights in Ireland, McDonagh was born in Camberwell, London to Irish parents. His mother and his father moved back to Galway, leaving McDonagh. Separated into two trilogies, M

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McDonagh at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival

In Bruges
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In Bruges is a 2008 British-American black comedy crime film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two Irish hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their boss, the film takes place and was filmed in the Belgian city of Bruges. In Bruges was the opening film of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

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Black comedy
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Black comedy or dark comedy is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo. Literary critics have associated black comedy and black humor with authors as early as the ancient Greeks with Aristophanes, Black comedy corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor. The term black humor was coined by the Surr

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' Hopscotch to oblivion', Barcelona, Spain

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An amusing play on words

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Major "King" Kong riding a nuclear bomb to oblivion, from the film Dr. Strangelove

Horrible Bosses
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Horrible Bosses is a 2011 American black comedy film directed by Seth Gordon, written by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, based on a story by Markowitz. It stars Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, and Jamie Foxx. The plot follows three friends, played by Bateman, D

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Top to bottom: Aniston, Farrell and Spacey, who portray the titular horrible bosses.

Fright Night (2011 film)
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Fright Night is a 2011 American comedy horror film directed by Craig Gillespie, and produced by Michael De Luca and Alison Rosenzweig. A remake of Tom Hollands Fright Night, the screenplay was adapted by Marti Noxon. The plot follows a boy who discovers that his neighbor is actually a vampire. The film held its premiere at The O2 in London on Augus

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Sci-fi
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Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a literature of ideas. Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying science fiction is what we point to when we say it, a defini

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A futuristic setting is a common but not a necessary hallmark of science fiction. A common thread in science fiction is exploring the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations on people's lives.

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Speculative fiction

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H. G. Wells

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Jules Verne

Total Recall (2012 film)
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Total Recall is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Len Wiseman. The screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback was based on the 1990 film of the same name, the film stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, Bokeem Woodbine, John Cho, and Bill Nighy. Unlike the first film and the story, the plot takes p

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Seven Psychopaths
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Seven Psychopaths is a 2012 crime black comedy film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. It stars Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, and Christopher Walken, with Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko, the film marks the second collaboration between McDonagh, Farrell, and Ivanek, following 2008s In Bruges. The film was a co-product

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Dead Man Down
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Dead Man Down is an 2013 American neo-noir crime thriller film written by J. H. Wyman and directed by Danish director Niels Arden Oplev. The film stars Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper, and Terrence Howard, Dead Man Down was Oplevs first film since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, also starring Rapace and scored by Jacob Groth. Victor ha

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Saving Mr. Banks
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Saving Mr. Banks is a 2013 period drama film directed by John Lee Hancock from a screenplay written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith. The films subject matter piqued Disneys interest, leading the studio to acquire the screenplay and produce the film. Saving Mr. Banks premiered at the London Film Festival on October 20,2013, upon release, the film rece

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The former Animation Building on the Walt Disney Studios lot, which served as a primary filming location for the film.

Winter's Tale (film)
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Winters Tale is a 2014 American supernatural fantasy mystery romantic drama film and fable based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Mark Helprin. The film is produced, written and directed by Akiva Goldsman, edited by Wayne Wahrman and Tim Squyres, Winters Tale premiered at London on February 13,2014 and was theatrically released on February 14,

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Listo, an Andalusian stallion that plays "The Horse"

Winter's Tale (novel)
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Winters Tale is a 1983 novel by Mark Helprin. It takes place in a mythic New York City, markedly different from reality, the novel was adapted into a feature film by Akiva Goldsman. Peter Lake is the character of Winters Tale. A child of an immigrant couple denied admission at Ellis Island and he is found in the reeds and adopted by the Baymen of t

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First edition cover

Mark Helprin
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While Helprins fictional works straddle a number of disparate genres and styles, he has stated that he belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend. Helprin was born in Manhattan, New York in 1947 and his father, Morris Helprin, worked in the film industry, eventually becoming president of London Films. His mother was actress Eleanor

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Mark Helprin

HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the U

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The RCA Satcom domestic communication satellite launched on December 13, 1975, spurred the cable television industry to unprecedented heights – with the assistance of HBO.

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Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi and former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey at the New York City premiere of Pelosi's HBO documentary about McGreevey, Fall to Grace, in March 2013.

The Lobster
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In the films setting, single people are given 45 days to find a romantic partner or otherwise be turned into animals. It stars Colin Farrell as a man trying to find someone so he can remain human. The film is co-produced by Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France and it was selected to compete for the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and

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Harry Potter (film series)
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Harry Potter is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling. A spin-off prequel series will consist of five films, starting with Fantastic Beasts, the Fantastic Beasts films mark the beginning of a shared media franchise known as J. K. Rowlings Wizarding World. The series was produced by David Heyman, and

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Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint at the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in Trafalgar Square, London on 7 July 2011.

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Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, where much of the film series was shot. Harry Potter was also filmed in other areas, including Pinewood Studios.

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David Yates directed four of the films in the series, including the two-part finale Deathly Hallows.

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A studio model of Hogwarts. It is the main setting in the series; the castle features in every novel and screen adaptation.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2016 fantasy film directed by David Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. A spin-off of the Harry Potter film series, it was produced and written by J. K. Rowling, in her screenwriting debut, and inspired by her book of the same name. It is the first instalment in the Fantastic Beasts series, and the ove

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Part of the cast of the 2001 film Ocean's Eleven at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. The cast from left to right is Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts and director, Steven Soderbergh.